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It was tough to fail year after year. I never even got to the final stage until I got my card on the Web.com Tour. But I always believed that I could be something special. I just had to prove it to myself.

Mini-tour life isn't a glamorous, professional golf life. If you're not on the PGA Tour, it is very tough financially.

We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It's a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud. Sports are big. You learn to fight.

I think there's too many rules in golf. And I mean that's easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

It was tough, so hard; it really was horrible when I was growing up. I was called so many names, all sorts.

To me, life is a gift, and it's a blessing to just be alive. And each person should learn what a gift it is to be alive no matter how tough things get.

It's a big move from the 'Tough Man' circuit to professional boxing. When I turned pro, I had to play catch-up and was fighting almost twice a month until I had more than 20 fights under my belt.

The 'Tough Man' contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn't know how to fight.

If I'm on base a guy might get a little bit more fastballs. Or if someone else is on base everyone knows I'm going to be a tough out - I get on base 40 percent of the time and that helps any lineup.

I was one of the main guys on my team and you always want to check people that you're bringing in. Are they tough enough physically and mentally? Can they respond when you need them to respond?

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

I have thin skin. I'm not a tough guy.

I play tough guys in movies and behaved like one in front of the press because I thought that was what a man did.

I'm a big baby. I'm not tough at all.

If they're a friend, they stick with you through the tough stuff.

The one thing I'm not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle - and winning.

I'm very tough on crimes where there are victims who have been physically harmed. In such cases, I do not believe in leniency.

Of all the tough decisions in life, choosing between the job you need and the family you love should not be one of them.

Traveling with kids is tough. My best advice is don't do it.