Pete Hamill Quotes

Guys in our sport bump their gums quite a bit, and they get you to think they're these huge tough guys... they're these gangsters, that they'll fight anybody, anytime. And then when you get in front of a person like me... the crickets start to come out. They don't really wanna fight.

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.

All these guys that want to act tough and act like they're hard in the street, that's cool, man. I'm glad you want to act hard, and your emotions are driving crazy, but you need to get out of your feelings, nerds.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

I don't know how to put on any tough guy pretensions.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are generally seen as tough guys. To me, when a hip-hop musician always plays tough, I find it annoying because I know they're not really like that - there's something deeper and vulnerable. There has to be, because they're human beings.

[Referring to George W. Bush] Anybody who has to spend all his time demonstrating his manhood has somehow got to know he ain't got it.

I come from Detroit where it's rough and I'm not a smooth talker.

Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.

You get people who rap about stuff that they don't do all day long. Half those guys, you hear them on the radio, and then you meet them, and you're like, 'Wow. They're so sweet.'

A fighter walks in the room and people are like 'oooo' because everyone is trying to be a tough guy.

My toughness comes from just being from Philly, man.

I grew up around really tough-nosed guys so that's all I know.

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

Gleason was a rough guy. Like all of these comics, I have never known one who is a sweetheart all the way through.

Philly guys have a different toughness from anybody you've probably ever met. That's what I hang my hat on.

My father was like an unpolished diamond - tough outside but warm inside.

People like authenticity and I think I have the courage of my convictions and am authentic.

The toughest guys have the biggest hearts. The biggest hearts - because they have to be tough to protect it.

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.