Quotes About The Other Guy

#1. I've endured my entire life struggling from a split personality. The problem is that the other guy, a wise guy named (Jack) ... has always been in charge.

Timothy Pina

#2. I believe in destiny ... what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win ... I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

Sam Snead

#3. Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.

Gwen Ifill

#5. I put a flower in someone's locker when I was 15 years old. This girl, called Maria. Maybe I was 14. She actually thought it was from someone else, and the other guy claimed it as well, which was just great.

Robert Pattinson

#6. You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

Jack Kirby

#7. If we always think the other guy is the reason for our lack of success, then it's time to start planning ways to lift ourselves up, rather than planning ways to take him down.

Charles F. Glassman

#8. Never assume the other guy will never do something you would never do.

Willie Mays

#9. A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Bob Hope

#10. Haven't you ever heard of compromise?" "Oh sure," I said. "That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. I've done that lots of times. It sucks.

Sue Grafton

#11. We played for the love of the game; there were few holdouts. We wanted to pitch every day; to win more games than the other guy - not for the money, but for the glory of winning.

Kid Nichols

#12. I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

Donnie Wahlberg

#13. What about the other guy?" My eyes half closed as I felt the heel of his hand brush the side of my breast. "He's the past," I managed to say. "You're the future." "Damn right I am.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong.

Mitch Hedberg

#15. Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

Robert Loggia

#16. This is why we need more women officers. For us it's enough to win. For you, the other guy has to know he lost.

Lee Child

#17. So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

Katie Couric

#18. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

Frank Bruno

#19. Sometimes in life you're going to win and sometimes you're going to lose. But just because you lose doesn't mean the other guy needs to win.

John Scalzi

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I play outsiders. That's just the way it's gone for me, and I think that's fantastic. I like it because I've always been interested in how the other guy thinks. I want to know what's going on in his head.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Arthur C. Clarke

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

James Spithill

#27. 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

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

Sheldon Adelson

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

Alan Parsons

#30. Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Andrew Vachss

#31. If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

Jimmy Nail

#32. All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.

Bill Parcells

#33. I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.

Wendell Pierce

#34. Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.

Diana Vreeland

#35. I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio and the other guy took the tires.

Rodney Dangerfield

#36. Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.

S.E. Hinton

#37. It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#38. Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.

George H. W. Bush

#39. When things are going awry, it's time to put the blinders on and do your job. Just do your job. Don't worry about the other guy, don't worry about the wins and losses, just worry about what the very next play is.

John Riggins

#40. I don't carry a weapon, Mr. Bogatyrev. Not usually. I've never been in a situation where I needed one. Either the other guy has one, and I do what he says, or he doesn't, and I make him do what I say.

George Alec Effinger

#41. Don't carry a grudge; while you're carrying a grudge, the other guy's out dancing.

Buddy Hackett

#42. If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Kenneth Kaye

#43. When you think about it, what's the difference between Bobby Knight and Vince Lombardi? Why is one guy a god, and the other guy is regarded as a crazy man?

Brian Dennehy

#44. Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a car that will read the other guy's mind.

Jay Leno

#45. He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. (Unless the other guy has a gun!)

Quentin R. Bufogle

#46. In wrestling, there is no retreat. No way to slow things down. In wrestling, you advance and advance, and being tired is just a lie to make the other guy think he can relax. It's so hard - harder than anything I've ever done.

Channing Tatum

#47. Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

George Foreman

#48. Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

Mitch Albom

#49. Relaxing is for the other guy.

Mark Cuban

#50. There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

Mordecai Richler

#51. Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Larry Merchant

#52. While the other guy's sleeping?
I'm working.
While the other guy's eatin'?
I'm working.

Will Smith

#53. He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

Stephen King

#54. Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance.

Travis Browne

#55. So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

Stephen J. Cannell

#56. Say as little as possible, hope some of the undecideds like your teeth better than the other guy's - that's usually the way this business works.

Matt Taibbi

#57. If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.

Wayne Dyer

#58. There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

Laura Ingraham

#59. You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

Chuck Schumer

#60. The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.

Dave Besseling

#61. The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

William Proxmire

#62. They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions. And an employer is capable of firing you at any time.

Stephen Morrill

#63. Love fully, even when it gets hard. Give forgiveness, even when you aren't sure the other guy deserves it. And in every friendship you're in, don't forget to actually be friends.

Adriana Locke

#64. Speed is more than just how fast you can thrust your foot into the other guy's stomach. Whether you're punching, kicking, blocking, or moving your entire body, other factors are of equal importance, and they too must be trained. ~Perception speed ~Reaction speed ~Movement speed ~Recovery speed

Loren W. Christensen

#65. Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

Steven Pinker

#66. That doesn't mean you have to have the lowest costs in the industry to succeed. But you need to make sure the activities and product attributes that increase your costs above the other guy bring in at least that much more in revenue, and hopefully more.

Gerard Arpey

#67. Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

Tony Stark

#68. You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

A. J. Kitt

#69. Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but giving the other guy a political 'win' - is a disservice.

Mike Quigley

#70. If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.

Ricardo Montalban

#71. Is beer good for runners? Sure ... if it's the other guy drinking it.

Jim Fixx

#72. He liked to talk about the criminals he had put away, and how a person never knew, and how he had to protect his family, and how he wasn't going to let the other guy make the first move, but really it was just that Bert liked guns. The

Ann Patchett

#73. Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.

Alexis Arguello

#74. You guys are related to Jonah Wizard?" Jake asked, his lip curled disdainfully. "And the other guy," Dan grumbled. "Vin Diesel's stunt double.

Peter Lerangis

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

Matthew Ridgway

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

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

Lennox Lewis

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

Eric Blehm

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

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

Will Smith

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

Ron Wood

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

Cab Calloway

#89. 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

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

James Nicoll

#91. 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

#92. 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

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

John Grisham

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

Joe DiMaggio

#95. 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

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

Joe Louis

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

Seth Godin

#98. 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

#99. 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

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

Russell B. Long