“This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.” IfsIdeasStatesGuySuccessfulTaxesToughDeceivingTough Guy Author:George Papandreou
“I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.” IfsKindHelpingGuyAsksKindnessDemandToughDefeatSnapsAdmissionTough Guy Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.” MenPlayGuyFrontsToughPressesTough Guy Author:Tom Sizemore
“I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.” KnowsGuyKnow HowToughPretensionTough Guy Author:Anson Mount
“After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.” PeopleYearsTwoGuyPrayingToughPrisonTwo YearsTrust MeLet DownTough Guy Author:Ja Rule
“Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes.” HeartDoePlayGuyFightingGamesSportsTrainingToughBoxersKarateJudoTough GuyTough Games Author:Rickson Gracie
“I never came with a conscious plan to replace anyone else. Stallone does feel that way. He is a real tough guy in real life, and he gets to act that out. If you meet him and work with him, he is what he is. He is a guy that works out every day.” IfsWayFeelsDoeRealGuyPlansConsciousToughWork OutReal LifeTough Guy Author:Dolph Lundgren
“Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?” ThinkingWantedGuyBreakHellToughStrikesMusclesEmployersTough Guy Author:Jimmy Hoffa
“I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.” GuyFightingWalksToughFighterTough Guy Author:Channing Tatum
“It's easy to be a bad ass, it's easy to act like a bad ass, easy to act like a tough guy, it's easy to be a diva, and it's easy to be self absorbed. The list goes on and on but to me, I always just find it more important to be nice and kind.” KindImportantSelfGuyEasyNiceGoes OnToughListsAssBeing NiceBad AssSelf AbsorbedTough Guy Author:Dwayne Johnson
“"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.” GuyToughUnexpectedConferencesAstonishingTough Guy Author:Richard Holbrooke
“When fighting zombies, the only comfort one can have--if, indeed, it can be called a "comfort"--is knowing where the zombies are. "They are over there, and we are over here. When they come at us, we're going to shoot them down. That's how it's going to work. They're just zombies, and they're way over there. No way are we going to f*** this up." But when zombies then unexpectedly pop up behind you--Bam!--the whole battle plan's not so cut and dried, is it, Mr. Tough Guy?” IfsWayWholeGuyFightingBehindsKnowingCuttingPlansComfortBattleToughPopsGoing To WorkZombieBehind YouTough Guy Author:Scott Kenemore
“Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.” RealPlayAbleActionGuyFunRolesAdventureAchievementToughMasculinityTestosteroneTough Guy Author:Gerard Butler
“One of the toughest guys in the world is Randy Couture - he is the true epitome of what a tough guy is.” WorldGuyToughEpitomeTough GuyCoutureRandy Author:Jason Statham
“I'm good when I've got a bit of an edge, like the Clint Eastwood type of archetypal character. The tough guy that doesn't say a lot.” CharacterGuyBitsTypeToughEdgesTough Guy Author:Scott Adkins
“I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.” KnowsRealEndsGuyWinningStrongSportsHurtStreetsSmartBeatsToughWeakCleanRingsBoxingThe End Of The DayStrong WillBodyguardReal PowerTough Guy Author:Mike Tyson
“I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do." And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingDifferentGuyForceRolesHappeningsToughBoxesHeyGenreNavigateTough GuyDifferent Genres Author:Mark Wahlberg
“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.” PeopleThinkingMindTodayAbleAmericaRomanceGuyIndividualRaceTypeHeroTomorrowBlessingPureDemandToughTrackYesterdayEnjoyedThoughtfulPrimitiveUniformsInvincibleDoubtfulAccommodateTough GuyUnderprivileged Author:Ellen Glasgow
“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.” KnowsMenWorldWantFeelsWarEnoughGuySufferingFatherWaitingBoysKnow HowSeeingToughRainTreatsCourtLifetimeHungerDivorceForestsCorporateGood EnoughRitualScareFeel BetterFatherhoodBe A ManPubertyStartersTough GuyRaiders Author:Frank Pittman
“I started to take care of my body after I turned 50. I never liked how I looked physically because I was too cute, short, with coloring only on my cheeks, the perfect little nose, and then the blue eyes. But I would have preferred to have the look of a tough guy from the wrong side of town - one of those fascinatingly ugly looks.” LooksLittlesBodyEyeCareGuySidesPerfectToughTownsBlueUglyTake CareNosesCuteCheeksBlue EyesTough Guy Author:Giorgio Armani
“Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?” LooksRealPlayCharacterGuyStrongStageToughComplexesReal LifeMessNeuroticThugTough GuyComplex Characters Author:Jason Isaacs
“I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.” GuyHairToughTough GuyEyeglasses Author:Mickey Spillane
“My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'” EndsBigsGuyFatherLinesHeroSmartToughLike MeDreamerSocialistMy HeroPolandTough GuyHandbagsCutters Author:Alan King
“Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayWould BeAbleGuyCertainAttitudeSituationHeroSurvivalToughToolsEndureTypicalFinestTestedTough GuyNaiveteTrue HeroAmazing Man Author:Christian Bale
“My dad - who was a tough guy, a Green Beret - always looked nice and wore these bright Sansabelt pants. He always said, "You have two options: You can be a follower or you can be a leader. And you don't ever want to follow anybody." And that's kind of become my philosophy about everything.” WantKindSaidTwoPhilosophyGuyLeaderNiceDadToughGreenMy DadFollowersPantsTough GuyTwo OptionsGreen Beret Author:Bubba Watson
“That Elvis, man, he is all there is. There ain't no more. Everything starts and ends with him. He wrote the book. But for him, I'd be selling encyclopedias right now. There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.” MenHas BeensBookEndsGuyKingsRight NowToughSellingEncyclopediaTough GuyPretender Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me” PeopleGuySleepKnowingToughTestsDown AndKnocked DownTough Guy Author:Keith Thurman
“I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.” BigsUsedGuyTypeToughBodyguardTough Guy Author:Michael Clarke Duncan
“I want to be real. I don't want to pose as anything. I don't want to pose as a tough guy. I don't want to pose as a nice guy.” WantRealGuyNiceToughBeing RealNice GuyTough Guy Author:Trevor Bayne
“I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such a misconception and it's kind of gone out the window. Guys feel more comfortable going to chapel. I remember when I first started, guys were nervous about it and it was kind of a secret. There was still that stigma that came with it, but it's definitely been removed and (the faith movement) is definitely growing.” ThinkingFeelsFirstsKindStillsI CanJobsRememberGuySecretGoneGrowingMovementComfortableToughWindowDefinitionsNervousRemember WhenMisconceptionStigmaChapelTough Guy Author:Matt Cullen
“I'm a tough guy, and I like pitching in tough games.” GuyGamesToughPitchingTough GuyTough Games Author:Tim Hudson
“When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.” WantGuyToughOther GuysTough Guy Author:David Hayter
“We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.” YearsGuyTelevisionSeriousToughHeavyPigeonsTough GuyBaddies Author:John Noble
“A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys.” Would BeGuyNamesToughIdiotGangUneducatedTough Guy Author:Demetri Martin
“You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.” BigsGuySpeakLanguageFourToughNotionLikesSlyTough GuyPreconceived NotionsWatercolors Author:Rachael Leigh Cook
“I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.” ShouldGuyProveToughPredatorTough Guy Author:Mr. T
“I don't think in the religious way that most people associate that word with, but Hern is a committed guy. He's doing the hardest job with the late-term thing. I don't think that's easy on a person, especially under the kind of terrorism that doctors of his kind have seen over the past twenty years. He's a tough guy.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsKindPersonsJobsPastGuyEasyTermReligiousLateToughDoctorsTwentiesCommittedTerrorismHardestAssociatesOver The PastTough GuyHardest Job Author:John H Richardson
“And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.” MayDoeMomentsCharacterWould BeGuyBitsEnjoyPresidentMiddleFiguresGoes OnHeroToughSuicideInstanceBridgesHuntingReformersExpeditionsLarger Than LifeTough GuyCommitting SuicideJumpersErdoganBosphorus Author:Peter Kenyon
“I'm not this tough guy, I'm not this super hard person.” PersonsHardGuyToughTough Guy Author:Kevin Durant
“I'm not a tough guy or a good fighter at all. [Boxing] is just a great way to work out that's not boring. It's also good for your mental health. If you have an Irish or Scottish last name you should definitely do it.” IfsWayShouldLastsGuyNamesToughMental HealthWork OutBoringFighterBoxingScottishGood FightTough Guy Author:Gavin McInnes
“I'm a tough guy, but I'm a good guy, I'm durable because when you play football they want you being tough, not just because you sprain your ankle crying "Mama, mama!"” WantPlayGuyCryFootballToughMamaGood GuyAnklesTough Guy Author:Mr. T
“I think the energy I give off is quite non-confrontational. That's something you learn from karate. Once you try to be a tough guy, you've got to pay up. You've got to prove yourself. And that's exhausting.” ThinkingGivingTryingGuyEnergyPayProveToughExhaustingKarateTough GuyProving Yourself Author:Dolph Lundgren
“I think the foreign policy is really not Donald Trump administration concern. Like the Syria strike. I mean, it meant almost nothing. They hit an empty air base. Within a day, it was functioning again. Planes were flying off it. It was for a domestic show, you know - show what a tough guy I am; I'm not Barack Obama.” ThinkingMeanGuyPolicyToughConcernEmptyFlyingBarackForeign PolicySyriaTough Guy Author:Noam Chomsky
“We make a living playing basketball. You don't have to be a tough guy or a hard-ass to play this sport. You can be tough but you don't have to have that bravado. Sometimes it's good. But I'm not going to be someone I'm not. It's just me being me.” SometimesGuySportsBasketballToughBeing MeTough Guy Author:Chris Bosh
“Donald Trumo is the fourth president Vladimir Putin is going to have worked with, OK? Clinton, Bush, Obama and now Trump. He respects toughness. He doesn't respect weakness. He decided, rightly or wrongly, that Obama was not a tough guy. And the question is whether or not Trump acts tough. We know he can. Right? We don't know whether he will.” GuyPresidentWeaknessToughClintonToughnessTough Guy Author:Peter Baker
“Talking with Ken Shamrock was almost a one-way conversation. I knew Ken was a tough guy, one of the toughest in the world at one time and still tough as nails. I had heard he had a tough background, but there are two times in that interview when I teared up. I'm "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and I didn't cry, but I teared up. Ken saw me, and he almost started tearing up, too. I'd never experienced anything like that. To hear some of the things that he went through, my jaw was on the floor.” WorldGuyCryColdToughTough GuyStone Cold Author:Stone Cold Steve Austin
“You're not allowed to criticize Obama because of his race. And I thought feminism made us all the same, we're all equal. Everybody's a tough guy now, so why can't we criticize women? Hillary Clinton is a nasty woman.” GuyFeminismEqualToughClintonCriticizeNastyTough Guy Author:Rush Limbaugh