#toughness

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#coach #day #every #every day #eyes

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#car #end #get #had #i

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#brave men #men #middle #softness #surface

When you think about your heritage, you think about toughness and hard work. ↗

— Jeff Garcia

#hard #hard work #heritage #think #toughness

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ↗

— Anais Nin

#believe #choose #compels #courage #deeper

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#get #i #i am #old #sweet

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one. ↗

— Bobby Knight

#mental #mental toughness #physical #toughness

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#backbone #being #bully #comes #having

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#after #away #balance #competition #everyone

Dried fish is a staple food in Iceland.This should be shredded with the fingers and eaten with butter. It varies in toughness. The tougher kind tastes like toe-nails, and the softer kind like the skin off the soles of one's feet. ↗

— Louis MacNeice

#toughness #food