“How can I intimidate Tiger Woods? I mean, the guy's got 75 or whatever PGA Tour wins, 14 majors. He's been the biggest thing ever in our sport. How could some little 23-year-old from Northern Ireland with a few wins come up and intimidate him.” YearsMeanLittlesGuyWinningSportsMajorsCome UpWoodsIrelandTigersIntimidatingNorthern Ireland Author:Rory McIlroy
“Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.” YearsBodyWantedArtistGuyDefined Author:Todd McFarlane
“Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.” YearsWarSometimesJobsGuySituationFourDangerousSeriousFlowerAccidentsInjuryFour YearsExplosionsStrideTechnicians Author:Vic Morrow
“I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.” KnowsWorldYearsGuyImagineNbaUnbelievable Author:Don Nelson
“Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series” WorldYearsFacesGuyPoliticsLuckySeriesWorld Series Author:Dan Quayle
“Since I was 15 years old, all I wanted was to find the guy I was going to marry.” YearsWantedGuy Author:Ali Larter
“Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.” WritingYearsWellsCountryHardTogetherGuyFoundMusicianIncrediblesProducersThis GuyReally CoolFranklin Author:Sasha Pieterse
“I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.” IfsYearsWantedLastsGuyWallSeriesPushingCopBad Guys Author:William Petersen
“Well, I think probably when I first got in the business, I wasn't thinking of being strictly a character actor. But I knew I wanted to be a working actor, and as the years have gone on, I just naturally evolved into that. Because, y'know, I'm not a leading guy. Never was.” ThinkingKnowsYearsFirstsWellsCharacterWantedGuyActorsGoneCharacter Actors Author:Stephen Root
“In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.” YearsDoneGuyStuffMusicianStudiosSession Author:David Sanborn
“When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game?” YearsGuyFatherGamesRightsWillingHugeAmountNflChampionshipWorthlessThis GuyChampionship Games Author:Steve Sabol
“I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.” ThinkingKnowsYearsStillsSometimesKidsGuyFictionWatchesScience FictionScaredCome UpConventionsPiercingsOld Guys Author:Dee Wallace
“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.” YearsLooksMadeSometimesGuyTurnsSoundInterestingYears AgoDown AndMade ItGlimpseSurfingThat Guy Author:Andrew Niccol
“The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team.” YearsGuyComedyTeamHavensWingsRadioLocalsLeagueFarmsMinorsRight Wing Author:Al Franken
“Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.” YearsFirstsSaidEnoughGuyThreeComedyWeekFeetShotsYeahMaking MoneyRanGatesThree YearsHad EnoughMisled Author:Al Franken
“I've never gone out with a guy who is older than me by more than a couple years. Usually it's my age, a little bit older, or even a little bit younger. But not a 15- or 20-year difference.” YearsLittlesAgeGuyBitsDifferencesGoneCoupleLittle Bit Author:Sofia Vergara
“I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job.” YearsHomeJobsGuyHouseWatchesTelevisionDemandListsComing HomeCereal Author:Allison Williams
“My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.” YearsMindFirstsBookDreamGuyThreeTenBuriedThree YearsKillersCurvesThis GuySerialsSerial KillerSewers Author:Tim Cahill
“Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.” KnowsMenYearsDoeHas BeensSometimesHandsPastBeautifulYoungGuyPayAttentionWonderfulExampleHeroPay AttentionGood ManThat GuyMy HeroWonderful LifeBeautiful Family Author:Dave Grohl
“After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.” PeopleYearsTwoGuyPrayingToughPrisonTwo YearsTrust MeLet DownTough Guy Author:Ja Rule
“I will be the 43-year-old guy in the jumpsuit. In my estimation and my image of myself is that I am 23 and can get away with it. If I didn't have the show, I would be in one right now. It would be denim, but I love a terry.” IfsYearsShowsWould BeGuyRight NowGet AwayEstimationOld GuysDenimJumpsuits Author:Andy Cohen
“Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.” YearsHeartArtSometimesCareGuyChanceEmotionRecordsMissingShotsCamerasPhotographerDon't CareThreatenedGreat ArtTake A ChanceBoundlessTranscendentPromPhotogenicNikon Author:Joan Bauer
“Back before 'Brick,' I wrote a short film that I never ended up shooting: hit men in the present who work for a mob in the future who send their victims back in time. A guy is sent his future self, he lets him run, and the whole short was them chasing each other across the city. That sat in a drawer for 10 years until after I made 'Brothers Bloom.” MenYearsMadeSelfWholeRunningFilmGuyCitiesBrotherVictimShootingSatChasingBricksDrawersBack In TimeShort FilmsFuture Self Author:Rian Johnson
“My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.” IfsYearsSchoolGuyFoundChangedDadEasierArmyMovedMy DadNew FriendsFunny Guy Author:Jason Gann
“I actually think if you have a strong junior class, that's the best possible scenario. In their senior year, guys who are on the threshold of making it to the NBA start getting preoccupied in their thoughts elsewhere more than concerning themselves with the present. The junior class is the perfect age.” IfsThinkingYearsAgeGuyStrongPerfectClassNbaElsewhereSeniorJuniorsScenariosThresholdSenior Year Author:Rick Pitino
“I was talking to a friend about Santorum. He said, 'For all my years in the State Department, I know one thing. Terrorists, what they fear most is a guy in a sweater vest.'” KnowsYearsSaidStatesGuyTalkingOne ThingTerroristDepartmentSweatersVestsSweater Vests Author:David Letterman
“And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.” PeopleYearsLooksTwoHappinessGuyFoundPlanetsBillsGatesRight TimeRight Place Author:Steve Jobs
“We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.” YearsGuyFunPresidentToughClintonExpensesTransitionThis GuyPrivate SectorPresident Clinton Author:David Letterman
“I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into some kind of novelty. The only way I could get through that time was to drink. I poisoned myself with alcohol for years but I've never been into drugs in the way it was sometimes made out.” PeopleWayYearsKindMadeSometimesWantedGuyFeltDrinkDrugAlcoholNovelty Author:Johnny Depp
“I played a lot of serious parts in a lot of TV movies and early miniseries but what happens is that you get sort of locked into "Oh no, he's a serious actor." Well, I was a serious actor for nine years or 10 years and then I get into comedy and everybody said, "Oh no, he's funny. He can do comedy," and then all of a sudden, you're just a comedy guy.” YearsWellsSaidHappensGuyActorsCan DoComedySeriousTvsNineLockedNine Years Author:Barry Bostwick
“I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail.” YearsLongGuyHairLetting GoSuitsHatedLong HairPonytails Author:Dave Grohl
“Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.” KnowsYearsDoeHas BeensPastYoungGuyHeroThat GuyMy Hero Author:Dave Grohl