Steve Lukather Quotes

As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

I like pressure, the boos didn't mean nothing to me.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

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

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

I've been through a lot, and I've been called a lot of names.

I've been through worst, seen worst.