I knew it was going to be a tough race.

"I thought this was going to be a tough race from the beginning," he said.

The current system's still pretty tough on us as a race, but it used to be much worse.

"I think we're in a tough race and we ought to have our best people."

Any new Republican ticket would have one tough race, with so little time left.

She hadn't run in two months, and Jerry said it was a tough race.

But this is a tough race to get a handle on.

We knew this would be a much tougher race than the one he ran in last time.

And I believe this'll be a tough race, down to the wire.

It was a tough race on her to be in between horses like that.