Hard-nosed Quotes

The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could've come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn't.

I'm very hard-nosed and cold-blooded and I can walk past a drowning man. If I have someplace else to go, well, tough s**t. I could do that. I can. Have. Sometimes, not because I was callous but had to do it.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

The way I approach things is that I'm a physical player.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.

I'm a very practical, pragmatic capitalist. I was trained at Goldman Sachs. I went to Harvard Business School. I was as hard-nosed a capitalist as you get. I specialized in media, in investing in media companies, and it's a very, very tough environment.

Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.

I am a physical player, no doubt about that, but a dirty player? That's not my reputation.

I'm certainly not a baby kissing, hand slapping, rah rah good guy. I definitely think there's more of an edge to my character.

I came out of the old Second City in Chicago. Chicago actors are more hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

Back when I got in the league, it wasn't a sexy game. It was more of a 'beat you down' game - you know, make sure you were strong.

I am deeply unsentimental.

I'm just kind of a hard-nosed, don't say a lot and go to work kind of guy.

Huth is the sort of centre-half who will let you know he is there, so to speak, with a challenge or two early in the game.

I guess I'd say I'm quite an aggressive player. Fair but aggressive, someone who likes the tough stuff.

now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.