Other Guy Quotes

#1. And now it's some other guy's hands that are thumbing their way over Joey's face and down Dee Dee's chin and - oh, fucking hell - dropping down between the A and the M, going right for the V under the H&M-meets-S&M miniskirt.

David Levithan

#2. She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight. I still stood for a moment, looking at the last place I had seen her, being careful not to be routine, while I became the other guy again, the one I was without her.

Robert B. Parker

#3. years," said one guy. "What happened?" asked the other guy.

Various

#4. But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#5. And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

#6. It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time.

Joel Gretsch

#7. Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him

Bill Russell

#8. With you, I can't see straight. My body's made the decision. I want to fuck you so hard, you can't even remember being with any other guy. After today, that's it. it's just me and you.

C.M. Stunich

#9. [ ... ]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.

Max Brooks

#10. Relaxing is for the other guy. I may be sitting in front of the TV, but I'm not watching it unless I think there is something I can learn from it. I'm thinking about things I can use in my business and the TV is just there.

Mark Cuban

#11. Too many people with too many agendas, and everyone was worried that the other guy would shoot them in the back. Of all the ways to go and meet the God-like alien whatever-they-were that built the protomolecule, this was the stupidest, the most dangerous, and - for Bull's money - the most human.

James S.A. Corey

#12. Your biggest opponent isn't the other guy. It's human nature.

Bobby Knight

#13. You let every other guy have you. You give away pieces of yourself like they're candy." I went rigid trying to make sense of this different side of Bennett. He looked lost and miserable and desperate. "Maybe this is the only way. Maybe if I pretend to be like them.

Christina Lee

#14. Kope!" the other guy yeled. "What the frick?! You got some cheetah blood in you or what?""Seriously!" insisted Blake. "How did you run so fast?"
"I am African." Without taking his eyes from mine, Kopano eased himself off me, and I sat up.

Wendy Higgins

#15. It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

Kyra Sedgwick

#16. A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

Malcolm Forbes

#17. I was in some other guy's version of heaven.

Dan Skinner

#18. Just repeat this phrase whenever you feel the urge to jump some other guy's bones."
His mouth brushes my ear. "Loren Hale fucks better.

Krista Ritchie

#19. He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

H.W. Brands

#20. I'm not looking for anything more than any other guy. I like a good smile. Pretty eyes. She has to be active, like not play-sports active, but she'll play air hockey, do some pool, go for rides on the Santa Monica Pier. I would much rather have fun with her than do the cool thing.

Mitchel Musso

#21. While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.

J.D. Salinger

#22. The doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.'

Jerry Lewis

#23. I want to mark you. I want to fuck every other guy out of your body until I'm all you feel, all you remember."
~ Ronan

Mia Asher

#24. It's a lot different being a hip-hop artist. You just show up with a piece of paper with your words on it, say it in the mic, then you leave and some other guy does all the music.

Caroline Polachek

#25. The other guy is obviously meant for me. He's quite short. I don't care about that. I'm quite short myself. I prefer beta males to alphas. Only he keeps telling me to smile. "Nothing's as bad as all that," he says. If I were five years old, I'd have bitten him by now.

Karen Joy Fowler

#26. I lost my job, well I didn't lose it, I know where it is, there's just some other guy doing it now.

Bobcat Goldthwait

#27. The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#28. I think too many of the politicians in Washington have forgotten simple ideals like solving problems and helping neighbors. The Washington game is more about scoring points or sticking it to the other guy.

Charlie Melancon

#29. I didn't care if we ever quit practicing. I loved it. The only other guy I ever knew who loved it as much was Jerry Duncan. He would beg to practice even when he was hurt. I've actually seen him cry because the trainer told him he couldn't scrimmage.

Bear Bryant

#30. To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

Cheech Marin

#31. I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

David Stockman

#32. What makes the strength of a soldier isn't the energy he uses trying to intimidate the other guy by sending him a whole lot of signals, it's the strength he's able to concentrate within himself, by staying centered.

Muriel Barbery

#33. They all shared Stan's personal allegiance to the famous old saying: War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other guy die for his.

Lee Child

#34. Everything's a game,' Sagan said. 'When you get down to it. Everything in life is ultimately some kind of strategy. If you have a better strategy than the other guy, he's going down.

R.A. Nelson

#35. I've spent every game I've ever played making sure I'm out-working the other guy.

Martin St. Louis

#36. Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are.

Edward Fahey

#37. Being anti-rhetoric is, finally, just another rhetorical strategy. Rhetoric is what the other guy is doing - whereas you, you're just speaking the plain truth as you see it.

Sam Leith

#38. The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.

Eddie Trunk

#39. I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.

Khaled Hosseini

#40. The bad boy image is something given to me by the media. I have been in relationships earlier, even for as long as three years. I am not saying I am a saint. I am like any other guy, I guess. Unfortunately, every time I even meet a person, it is reported as a link-up.

Yuvraj Singh

#41. I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy ever will. -Adrian-

Richelle Mead

#42. Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

Jose Mourinho

#43. Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China.

Argus Hamilton

#44. I didn't like seeing you with him" he says. "I don't think I'd like seeing you with any other guy ... beside me.

Simone Elkeles

#45. She also helped this other guy too . . . George Wu.

Veronica Roth

#46. Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

Pete Rose

#47. Son of-Who did this to you" Anger rolled through every word Ethan spoke.
"And what are you going to do? Go bet him up?" Even though she couldn't see him she was in a lot of pain, she gave Ethan a defiant look. "Been there. Done that. If you think I look bad, you should see the other guy.

Annie Rachel Cole

#48. It's not great when your husband thinks the only guy who can talk to you, is some other guy.

Jonas Eriksson

#49. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, the other guy has the best territory. The Successful Salesperson says, every territory is the best one. The Unsuccessful Salesperson says, that company will never buy. The Successful Salesperson says, I can make that company buy.

Brian Tracy

#50. So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school.
Buddy, I was miserable."
-Bryce Loski

Wendelin Van Draanen

#51. Each guy has his own space. We all end up in one of the other guy's rooms all the time. We always end up together, as far as people getting along.

Nikki Sixx

#52. My goal is not getting hit and to knock the other guy out. Some people might complain because they want to see boxers beat up on each other, but you cannot last long in professional boxing if you take a lot of punches.

Wladimir Klitschko

#53. I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had, wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it! That's what I want!

Rambo

#54. The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

Sage Francis

#55. It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

David Zucker

#56. A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

Russell B. Long

#57. Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.

Jon Bernthal

#58. Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can't see what the other guy is thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell

#59. Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.

Seth Godin

#60. Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

Joe Louis

#61. I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

Lee Child

#62. People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

David Letterman

#63. You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

Joe DiMaggio

#64. One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.

Lesley Gore

#65. Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

Lewis B. Hershey

#66. It matters to me, Mays. It matters a lot. I don't like seeing some other guy touching you. Not when it should be me touching you

A Meredith Walters

#67. Mentally than the other guy, and you're tougher mentally because

John Grisham

#68. Stop fighting me, Leo. Because I love you too." God said, his lips pressed firmly against Day's ear. "You can't fuck that other guy because you're mine," he whispered. God

A.E. Via

#69. I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

Bob Uecker

#70. I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.

Karl Malone

#71. Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

James Nicoll

#72. Hollywood loves to pat itself on the back and espouse their rhetorically liberal points of view while they continue to be the 1 percent and point the finger at the other guy.

Harry Lennix

#73. He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Cab Calloway

#74. I'm a Gemini, so I have a great time with the other guy.

Ron Wood

#75. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

Will Smith

#76. In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'

John Ridley

#77. I painted my walls yellow, with melted butter, because I recently discovered that I had a popcorn ceiling. It's this kind of reasoning that leads me to think I might make a great politician. Vote for me because hey, I can't be worse than the other guy.

Jarod Kintz

#78. Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#79. No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

Mike Tyson

#80. If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better ... or you're getting worse.

Tom Peters

#81. guess it's like driving a car, you gotta watch out for the other guy! I

Eric Blehm

#82. My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.

Beth Ditto

#83. When you go into the other guy's backyard you cannot hope to win on points.

Lennox Lewis

#84. I shrugged. "I guess that guys who'd never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would," I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.

Tammara Webber

#85. I love to win. I'm very competitive in most games, but I think also the beauty of the game. There was something about it, the pieces, the shapes, something about them coordinating together and trying to get the other guy.

Maurice Ashley

#86. He turns around to tend to the pasta like he didn't just ruin me for any other guy for the rest of my life.

Colleen Hoover

#87. Every day is a work day, and I have to work my ass off just as much as any other guy, doing whatever job they're doing. I believe in commitment and hard work, and hopefully, after that, success comes.

Aneurin Barnard

#88. People say it was the greatest individual rivalry they've ever seen. I agree with that. Let me assure you that if either Wilt's or Russ' coach had ever told one of them he couldn't guard the other guy, he would have lost that player forever.

Bill Russell

#89. The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.

Gregory Corso

#90. Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead.

Matthew Ridgway

#91. And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.

Jonah Goldberg

#92. I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself.

Sheldon Adelson

#93. You have no idea of the things you do to me. That night, after Fez, I would have happily given you every bit of myself."
I link my fingers between the buttons on his shirt.
He leans back in. "Then why didn't you?"
"Because I don't want you to be the other guy.

Anna Bloom

#94. Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.

James Spithill

#95. What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Arthur C. Clarke

#96. You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

Brett Favre

#97. Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.

Richelle Mead

#98. Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you - it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.

Deborah King

#99. Mel Brooks was a young fan at the time: 'Eddie Cantor was very important to me. Very influential on my work. The sketches were fast and furious - and Cantor was great at supporting the other guy in the sketch. It was Cantor who was making it all work for me.

Kliph Nesteroff

#100. I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

Alan Parsons