Mickey Rourke Quotes

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.

You couldn't play if you weren't tough. You'd get bullied. Everybody who comes through the Civitan Recreation Center has to be tough. It's what we breed.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

If you can't take it, you won't make it.

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

Believe me, I can be tough, physically and mentally.

I'm just tough.

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.

A true champion will fight through anything.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

I'm pretty tough.

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

He who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to draw upon

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity.

It's been kind of tough, but tough people last.

One should be brave. It's life, there will be ups and downs. It's only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.