tough environment Quotes

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

For my entire Duke career, people were gunning for us and hating us and wanting us to lose, so I got used to that right away. Every team is going to give you their best shot. Everyone wants to beat you.

Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die.

Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is.

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.

I'm from New York. You walk by, you bump somebody and they give you a look. There's always an attitude.

I grew up in a pretty rough neighborhood, Paramount, California, outside of L.A., like near Compton, that's where I'm from.

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.

When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who the bad guys in the rooms are - who has the gun in their pocket, who's just going to brandish it, and who's going to actually pull the trigger. So I think that's just a natural instinct that comes with coming from where I come from.

It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.

International rugby is an unforgiving arena.

This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

The outside world can be very tough.

I come from a blue-collar town - and being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you. You don't let people mistreat you. You stand up for what's right.

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

Canada can be tough for urban music.

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen.

I come from the rougher side of Sydney. I don't know whether you can compare them to the projects, but in Australia, it definitely is the rougher side.

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

Mike Tyson and I came up together in the streets, and being around people like him, I learned what goes on behind the scenes.

I grew up in the projects with four older brothers.

The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

You've got to bring your A-game when you're in the same household as a military guy.