"I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money."
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"I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble."
"I'm a fatheaded guy, full of pain. It tore me up not having you."
"One thing you never hear is "Man that guy is good at badminton"."
"You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive."
"I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy."
"George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?"
"Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well."
"I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, 'what a great barbie' to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes' pastime, isn't it?"
"I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics."
"I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out. He went mental, but not before he counted them all."
"There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot."
"I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am."
"I met my wife because we were both going out with the same guy."
"I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it's better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not."
"GN'R was five guys who were all into different things. I liked pop and disco, Izzy was into New York rock, Slash loved Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin, Axl was into Genesis and Elton John, and Duff was a punk rocker. We all blended that stuff together."
"I get to represent somebody I don't think is getting represented right now. The regular dude: the guy who believes in God but still likes pussy."
"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood."
"If you're seeing a psychiatrist, you're wasting money because all you've got to do is get on a plane, get on a subway tomorrow and, inevitably, you're going to be seated in front of some guy who's playing with himself, and he'll be singing, 'Happy Days Are Here Again.' I tell you - when I see that guy, I feel pretty good about myself."
"Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes."