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MMA is pretty tough on your mind because it's a sport that's not just about winning. You really want to win bad, but it's tough when you lose. You get beaten. And it really messes with your ego, because nobody wants to get beaten by other people physically. It's not just a game. You get beaten physically.

Chael is a pretty tough and strategic opponent and very hard to put down.

Sulecki was a tough guy. He wasn't taking no for an answer. He came to fight, though, and I did what I had to do, and that's look pretty. Tall, black, handsome.

The Premier League is a very difficult competition, it's so tough and complicated.

There's been times when it has been tough professionally.

People are always going to be tough on you.

The playoffs are tough. It's a different game.

Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.

A lot of people don't realise how mentally tough the Premier League is.

Point guard is tough. Almost every NBA point guard is elite.

If you're acting like a teenager in basically a grown man's world, it's tough to survive.

The great thing about running is that so often you wake up and you think: 'I really don't feel like this.' And even when you're up and out, that first kilometre is tough. But then once you get to 3km and you're getting to the end of the run, it's really fantastic.

The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.

Alan Shearer was tough, would be hard to play against, a difficult opponent.

I had a lot of tough times, and I know what it is. We must move forward, working equally and always strong.

It's tough to have a guy - not hinting at anything; it wasn't anything in the past - but when coaches are kind of on that roller-coaster ride, up and down, highs and lows, you never know what to expect. It makes it tough to come into work every day and be excited to go to meetings and things like that.

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will.

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.

It was always going to be difficult, no matter what I'd set up, no matter how many children I have got to take my mind off things. There was always going to be a moment when I finished playing, that I was going to find tough.

Our generation, we grew up in being prepared for a career physically and ability wise, but it wasn't there mentally. It was tough love and you were told to get on with it. Those were the messages we got.