“I have a weakness for tough guys who read.”

“Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.”

“When it gets tough, it is time to renew your spirit, not to give up. It is time to be tough, not weak.”

“I tell you, Izetbegović has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his.”

“Roger: I’m a Back in Black guy. I can’t help it man. I see both sides of that fence. It’s a tough one.”

“Parallel tough-guy nods."What now?" I asked, hoping to divert the two from actually beating their chests.”

“Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?”

“He's a tough guy. He stood there and took the verdicts. But it's obviously the worst day of his life.”

“I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.”

“I tell ya, I grew up in a tough neighborhood. The other night a guy pulled a knife on me. I could see it wasn't a real professional job. There was butter on it.”