Quotes on Other Guys

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.

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

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.

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

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

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

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

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

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

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

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!