And when the going gets tough, he is usually the very first of the tough to get going, inspiring and leading others to do the same.
Barack Obama gave a 53-minute interview over breakfast aboard a chartered jet that took him to Chicago, and he described to these New York Times reporters that he is going to get tough, that he's going to come down from his tower, as he's been not wanting to engage in mudslinging.
"He had a lot of tough shots to get him going, " Gordon said of Bryant.
Given the auction houses' continuing woes, these sellers may find it tough to get the bidding going.
He has been running around, talking about how he's going to get tough with China.
And they feel that if other religions are going to get tough, they had better follow suit.
We are going to have to make tough decisions, but in order to get this passed we're going to need both parties to work together.
Indeed, it seems almost axiomatic that when the going gets tough for US administrations, administration officials get tough on Israel.
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And we're going to have some tough politics within my party to get this done.
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Obviously we have to make some and are going to have to make some very tough decisions to get our fiscal house in order.
"Clearly I would have preferred to get more votes but this was always going to be a tough fight for Labour, " he said.
"It's unfortunate, but for the most part, unless those folks have gone back to get a masters, they're going to have a tough time finding a job, " Mr. Black says.
But when things get tough, when as now, the prizes are bigger but the going is tougher, the weaklings are elbowed aside until they fall back and slip over the cliff.
And I think there are a number of very tough decisions that are coming that are going to have to be made to get our fiscal house in order.
"I was able to get off to a good start but it was always going to be tough, " said Federer, who secured his 27th consecutive last-eight spot in a Grand Slam to equal Jimmy Connors' record.
When things are going really well you don't miss anybody, but when things get tough this is when the absences are felt and Chelsea have missed the likes of midfielder Frank Lampard and, of course, captain John Terry in recent weeks.
It's going to be a tough, first couple weeks without them, but we'll get through it.
Get on with it and don't look to us in Cardiff every time the going gets tough.
Three-quarters said their children made them keep going while getting treatment, and 71% said their partner motivated them to get through the tough times.
There are some people, Chuck, who said we couldn't get -- it would be tough to do contracting and procurement reform, get that through Congress, though it looks like the Senate is probably going to finish that tonight and the House will pass that out of committee some time this week.
Tough as it was to get the biggest companies from different industries to agree on a basic Bluetooth specification, it is going to be even harder to do the same for each application-specific standard from simple tasks such as controlling music players to complex hand-over rules needed between public-wireless networks and local cordless connections for phone calls.
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