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  • It's bloody tough being a legend.

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

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

    -Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton) Blair
      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.

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

  • When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

    - Knute Kenneth Rockne
    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.

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

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