“It's all about winning. Stats really don't matter, I mean, guys have great series and all that, and people take notice and take their place in history with those stats and all that stuff. But at the end of the day, it's all about winning and what you can do to help your team get to that point.” PeopleMeanEndsMatterHelpingGuyWinningStuffCan DoTeamSeriesThe End Of The DayChampionshipNba ChampionshipsMean Guy Author:Stephen Curry
“Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSometimesDoneHappensGuyLeaderGroupsHugeConversationOne On One Author:Robert Griffin III
“I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help.” PeopleKnowsHelpingBigsKidsGuyFiguresRacismMouthsPicksHatredBlindIndian80sThat GuyBullied Author:Russell Peters
“I'm a very lucky guy. I get to write music that I love, and lo and behold, people seem to really like it. I know how fortunate I am.” PeopleKnowsWritingSeemsGuyKnow HowLuckyFortunateOld PeopleLucky Guy Author:Corey Taylor
“I have a certain taste, and I might be like, 'I like this,' when other people are like, 'I can't wear that.' And in basketball, I might be able to do things other guys might not.” PeopleI CanMightAbleGuyCertainTasteBasketballOther Guys Author:Russell Westbrook
“I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldnt be the bad guy in the joke; he couldnt upset people, really.” PeopleDifferentPastGuyVoiceWrittenJokesPrioritiesUpsetBad GuysJimmyDifferent Voices Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.” PeopleShouldWholeProblemBigsFormGuyKeysHipsKneesTallAngleBig Guys Author:Phil Jackson
“Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.” PeopleWritingTryingGuyRecordsFeetBrotherMeetingsNailsSolo Author:Sammy Hagar
“Some people have no respect whether you are with your family or not. That's the hardest part. I was shopping in a grocery store in Seattle looking for stuff for Nicholas. This guy kept following me with his cell phone video on.” PeopleGuyStuffPhonesFollowingStoresVideoHardestCellsOur FamilyShoppingThis GuyGroceriesCell PhoneSeattleGrocery StoresNo RespectGrocery Shopping Author:Joe Montana
“A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people.” PeopleStillsGuyFameLosingGreat ThingsThat GuyLosing Friends Author:Young Jeezy
“I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he can pull out a one-liner, but I couldn't do that. I didn't like the association. I mean, I love Steven Wright, but so many people started saying "Steven Wright" to me, and I would get mad, because I never wanted to be thought of as copying anybody.” PeopleKindMeanWantedGuySoundSubjectsMadComicAssociationOne LinerCopying Author:Mitch Hedberg
“Most of my experiences have been positive. I know I live a very good life. I'm severely overpaid, but there are people who are much more overpaid than I am. I've been very lucky, and I know that, because I see guys all the time who are struggling and can't make a dime, and they're much better actors than me.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensGuyActorsStruggleLuckyVery GoodGood LifeDimesVery Good Life Author:Kurt Fuller
“I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.” PeopleBelieveShowsGuyMembersGood PeopleTomsBelieve In MeCommerceShow BusinessDecencyChamberThat GuyEverymanChamber Of Commerce Author:Kurt Fuller
“My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.” PeopleThinkingShouldIdeasGuyNamesKillingGood Guy Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.” PeopleIfsWellsSaidGuyHellHeyGood PeopleGo To Hell Author:Mo Ibrahim
“When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.” PeopleKnowsWayFormGuyAsksGamesRoomsMissingBasketballAsk MeLastingLockersLocker RoomRoommateLasting Relationship Author:Earl Monroe
“Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised people aren't calling him Congressman Ken Lay. Wait 'till these guys find out in prison that insider trading has a whole new meaning.” PeopleWholeGuyFoundWaitingCasesCallingLaysPrisonGuiltyFormerFoundersCeoTradingCongressmanInsidersEnronInsider Trading Author:Jay Leno
“One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingPersonsBookGuyAsksReaderCoffeeShopsShyHobbiesBest PlaceCoffee ShopSketchingShy Person Author:Laurie Helgoe
“My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.” PeopleKindIdeasPlayGuyBlackSpaceRelatePoeticBlack PeopleParliamentSpaceshipsOuter SpaceFunk Author:Suzan-Lori Parks
“The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.” PeopleWantNeedsMadeDifferentGuyCausesRichMediaConversationMassIntellectualAssumingProfoundWittyDeeperSingersFormerDiscoursePromptsWoodyMass MediaGimmicksMisdirection Book:Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?” PeopleWritingYearsLongGuyListsThat GuyEighteenSellersBest SellersAstounded Author:Sylvester Stallone
“I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.” PeopleTryingAbleJobsGuyPresidentNumbersQualityThese DaysCantQuality Time Author:Robert Scheer
“I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.” PeopleKnowsWayWantFeelsPersonsStillsYoungGuyMy FriendsHopefully Author:Johnny Manziel
“Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.” PeopleFirstsBookWould BeGuyGrowsEasyScriptureCheatingVerses Author:Andy Stanley
“I was in Australia in about 1996 when I played some acoustic guitar for some guys at a studio down there. They were pretty happy with it, and mentioned doing an album, so about a year later I met some people who were interested in recording.” PeopleYearsGuyMetsGuitarAlbumsStudiosAustraliaAcousticsAcoustic Guitar Author:Tom Curren
“It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.” PeopleKindGuyEnjoyBlackProvokingDressed UpBlack Guys Author:Chris Lilley
“Everywhere I go now, people are like, 'That's the guy from 'Dancing With the Stars!'' It's pretty good that you're not just a football player but you're in the entertainment world.” PeopleWorldGuyStarsPlayerFootballDancingEntertainmentFootball PlayerDancing With The Stars Author:Donald Driver
“When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. "High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college." But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.” PeopleLongSchoolGuyCollegeExpressionMetsHigh SchoolBullyingArrogantShockedPreventingHazing Author:Rosalind Wiseman
“I was kicked out of middle school a few times. This guy who was kind of a d*** and a bully got hit by a car. I jumped up and went, YEAH Apparently that wasnt cool with some people cause I got kicked out.” PeopleKindSchoolGuyCausesMiddleCarYeahBullyThis GuyMiddle School Author:Tom DeLonge
“What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.” PeopleThinkingGivingHelpingHomeGovernmentGuyCan DoCasesHonestCarKeysCitizensVoteCliffsGood Guy Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie
“Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldImportantFeelingsGuyImportant ThingsDistance Author:Keith Richards
“What it is coming down to is who runs the country. It's us against them. It's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's the God-fearing people against the pagans, and some of the pagans are going to church.” PeopleCountryRunningGuyChurchScaryVersusBad GuysPaganGood GuyGoing To Church Author:Randall Terry
“Some people thinks that I'm the Antichrist, which would be a really good disguise for the Antichrist. You'd never see a pudgy, out-of-shape guy, 5 o'clock in the afternoon, being the Antichrist, would you?” PeopleThinkingWould BeGuyShapesClockAfternoonDisguiseAntichrist Author:Glenn Beck
“People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.” PeopleMeanGuyEasy Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“I want our pie to grow all the people, but if some other guy's pie is growing a little faster, that's terrific.” PeopleIfsWantLittlesGuyGrowsGrowingFasterPieTerrificOther Guys Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“We have seen some of the greatest athletes fall because they have tried to take shortcuts. I'm not going to call any names but we talk about guys that was like at the top of their game that people just idolized. They looked in awe and all of a sudden you see them just come tumbling down because they want to take shortcuts. I think it's more rewarding when you do it the old fashioned way.” PeopleThinkingWayWantGuyFallGamesNamesAthleteAweOld FashionedShortcutsTumblingGreatest AthleteIdolizedTumbling Down Author:Jerry Rice
“Everything is this distorted mishmash of pop culture that pulls from this era and that era and is just thrown at the wall. These people have no clue what anything really means. There are guys out there getting a million hits for a video.” PeopleMeanGuyCultureMillionsWallPopsVideoErasThrownCluePop CultureReally Mean Author:Willis Earl Beal
“I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'” PeopleThinkingFeelsDoeGuyHateCausesTerribleJokesPrintThat Guy Author:Aziz Ansari
“I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.” PeopleIfsDoeSaidMovingGuyBeliefStuffFingersFinishedAmazing ThingsWheelchairs Author:Jim Carrey
“Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingPersonsMightJobsGuyActorsEasyFailingSkillsCraftsEditorsAlchemy Author:Joss Whedon
“I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do." And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingDifferentGuyForceRolesHappeningsToughBoxesHeyGenreNavigateTough GuyDifferent Genres Author:Mark Wahlberg
“The top people of the biggest companies are, surprisingly, often the nicest ones in their company I'm not sure, though, if they got there because they were good guys or that they're now good guys because they can afford to be.” PeopleIfsGuyCompanyNot SureExecutivesGood Guy Author:Malcolm Forbes
“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.” PeopleThinkingMindTodayAbleAmericaRomanceGuyIndividualRaceTypeHeroTomorrowBlessingPureDemandToughTrackYesterdayEnjoyedThoughtfulPrimitiveUniformsInvincibleDoubtfulAccommodateTough GuyUnderprivileged Author:Ellen Glasgow
“Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!” PeopleRunningGuyPoliticsPresidentCommunityLeadershipJusticeComedyPolicyOrdinaryEthicsConstitutionMarkMadHuman RightsSocial MediaTerrorismComplainingIdeologyPotPresident ObamaFree SpeechFoundersSpyDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceNsaKettlesZuckerberg Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's not my job. My job is to bring some sense of humanity to the character, no matter how evil he may be. The script is going to take me there.” PeopleMayMatterCharacterJobsFilmGuyHumanityEvilSawsSpecialEffectsScriptsScaryTake MeSpecial EffectsScary Things Author:Tobin Bell
“'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMightGuyNextInterestingSawsEffectsSignificantThemeReally InterestingRippleRipple Effect Author:Tobin Bell
“Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.” PeopleGuyBitsCastsKillersSerialsSerial Killer Author:Nick Offerman
“What I'm trying to tell people is that police brutality in the 'hood is nothing new. And the thing is that whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point.” PeopleTryingBelieveRealGuySongPoliceKillersCopThis GuyPolice BrutalityBrutalityHoodNothing New Author:Ice T
“Our society is so much about fidelity being this thing that's sacred, and people are miserable. They're suicidal. It brings more depression than anything else on earth, probably. Sorry to say that, guys.” PeopleEarthGuySacredSorryMiserableOur SocietySuicidalFidelityThat Guy Author:Julie Delpy
“I use two million Twitter followers as a tool. The reason I have Twitter is so people can get to know me as a different person other than Dwight. I just realized all of the sudden like everything thinks I'm Dwight. They think that I'm Dwight from the office and that I'm this kind of annoying, difficult, nerdy, creepy guy and they don't know Rainn Wilson - although I'm a little bit nerdy, annoying and creepy. I'm not as much as Dwight Schrute.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindLittlesPersonsTwoDifferentReasonUseGuyBitsDifficultMillionsOfficeLittle BitToolsFollowersAnnoyingKnow MeCreepyWilsonNerdyDwightGet To Know MeJust Realized Author:Rainn Wilson