It's bloody tough being a legend.

-Atkinson, Ron
  Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

Labour is the Party of law and order in Britain todayötough on crime and tough on the causes of crime.

-Blair,Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton)
  Speech as Shadow Home Secretary, Labour Party Conference, Sep.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day likea football, and it will be round and full at evening.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.5.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

-Rockne, Knute Kenneth
His catchphrase, later adopted byJohn F Kennedy.

You help them get elected, and then the Senate becomes the wife, the mistress. That was one lady I couldn't begin to fight. She was too tough.

-Taylor, Elizabeth Rosemond
  After her marriage to SenatorJohnWarner. In Cosmopolitan, Sep.