Good Guys Quotes

Welcome to the realm of Good Guys Quotes, where the essence of nobility, courage, and righteousness converge in timeless words of wisdom. In a world often fraught with challenges and complexities, the allure of goodness and virtue stands as a beacon of hope, inspiring countless individuals to strive for the betterment of themselves and society. Whether uttered by historical figures, literary heroes, or ordinary people who embody extraordinary values, these quotes encapsulate the essence of what it means to be a ‘good guy’ to uphold principles of integrity, compassion, and justice.

Within these pages, you will encounter a treasure trove of quotations that celebrate the triumphs of the human spirit and the power of altruism. From profound insights on empathy and kindness to stirring declarations of bravery and honor, each quote resonates with a profound truth that transcends time and culture. Whether you seek motivation, solace, or simply a reminder of the inherent goodness within us all, these quotes offer a poignant reminder of the importance of leading a life guided by principles of goodwill and decency. So, without further ado, let the journey through the realm of Good Guys Quotes commence, and may these words serve as a source of inspiration and guidance in your own quest to be a force for good in the world.

I’ve been around some really good guys from different teams. Dan Quinn

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public’s need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced. Sarah Weinman

In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone. Edgar Ramirez

We probably haven’t seen the variety and diversity of threats to Americans’ safety and well-being and our national security in a long, long time. Some have said it almost makes you yearn for the Cold War days when you knew who the bad guys were and who the good guys were, and there was a wall dividing us. Dan Coats

I’d really like to do a movie again with Tim Robbins and Clint Eastwood. They were really good guys. Cayden Boyd

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there’s no gray area at all. David Baldacci

When I was a kid, ‘Robocop’ to me was just good guys and bad guys. Leigh Whannell

The way I look at humanity, I don’t think there’s good guys or bad guys. We’re all potentially bad and potentially good. Stellan Skarsgard

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow! Rufus Wainwright

For many decades – and this was reinforced by the broadcast networks’ standards-and-practices department – bad guys on TV had to get their comeuppance, and good guys had to be brave and true and unconflicted. Those were the laws of the business. Vince Gilligan

The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction’s attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest. Richard K. Morgan

I’ve been playing against really good guys. Put myself in positions to win. Eventually I’ll win more than I lose these. Frances Tiafoe

I’ve played good guys for most of my career, and when I came out to California, I thought, ‘I really would like to find some wonderfully intelligent bad guy to play.’ Joe Morton

I do feel in 2018 that pro wrestling has gone in such a different direction. Before, things were so black and white; now, it’s shades of grey. It’s not so much good guys and bad guys: there are people who are put in situations who do the right or wrong things, but people react to them like they are stars. Adam Cole

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up. James MacArthur

I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys. Mads Mikkelsen

When I did ‘Good Guys Wear Black,’ I had a lot of dialogue in that movie. Chuck Norris

Men often think it’s the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I’m living proof that the good guys win. Carson Daly

Their practice habits are terrific. I’ve been around some really good guys from different teams in terms of bringing it to practice. When I was in San Francisco, Bryant Young was that way. Every practice on it. Dan Quinn

I just love playing good guys. Clive Owen

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that’s ugly are the bad guys. Duncan Jones

When you get to the top five, if you’re not fighting with a strategy, you’re going to lose to the good guys. Belal Muhammad

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn’t even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys. Dick Ebersol

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That’s great for the consumer; try providing it. Don Winslow

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that’s what I enjoy the most. Casey Stoner

There’s no good guys and bad guys. Hal Holbrook

National security always matters, obviously. But the reality is that if you have an open door in your software for the good guys, the bad guys get in there, too. Tim Cook

You know I am all about the good guys, but sometimes we get put to the back of the line because we are too nice. Alexander Volkanovski

You don’t see many bad guys fight amongst themselves. Bad guys always know exactly who they are and what they want. Good guys are the ones who are a little confused about their identities. Cameron Britton

The division needs a guy like me. It’s a bunch of good guys, and I’m the only bad guy in the division. There always has to be a bad guy in every movie. Colby Covington

When you wake up in the morning and have good training and learn something, have good adrenaline and you’re going to face some good guys in the gym, that keeps you warm. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide. Clive Barker

As a competitor, you want to pitch against the elite guys and really good guys. Gerrit Cole

All my best players have been really good guys, which means I can coach them. John Calipari

I don’t really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It’s not my thing. It’s like Tom Hanks territory. Denis Leary

But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains. Gary Oldman

There was nothing worse you could be than a tweener. There was nothing worse you could be, and there were so many good guys that were so good that were tweeners, and they couldn’t make it… And when you got that label, it was going to stick. It’s like getting branded. P. J. Tucker

I was never one to run away from trouble – I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It’s very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys. Sean Quinn

Something happened to the State of Israel. What was morally obvious in 1948 is not so obvious anymore. When the State of Israel was established, it was, for the parents and grandparents of these young Jews, a miracle. It was David and Goliath. We were the just cause. It was about values. We were small, but we were the good guys in the world! Tzipi Livni

The United States should always side with the good guys. Nayib Bukele

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple. Parker Stevenson

The older I get the more I realize there’s no real good guys or real bad guys, and I’m curious about how the good guys got good and how the bad guys got bad. Ted Demme

The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. ‘Cos everyone thinks they’re a goodie, don’t they? Ray Winstone

I’ve been fortunate to be in some really big fights against some really good guys and always have my health at the end of the night. Shawn Porter

The bad guys don’t always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure. Sam Waterston

I have good friends at Chelsea. I talk sometimes with Eden Hazard, Gary Cahill, Cesc Fabregas but with all of them they are my good friends and they are good guys. Nemanja Matic

It is clear to me that creating a pathway for decryption only for good guys is technologically stupid. You just can’t do that. Ted Lieu

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys. Vincent Cassel

I like guys who are understandable and good guys who are flawed. George A. Romero

I’ll beat a bunch of good guys, and then I’ll get a ton of fans come up to me and go, ‘Do you think you can beat Conor McGregor?’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my God. You guys are disillusioned.’ They think because this man’s popular he’s good. Eddie Alvarez

I’m not sure why I’m so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they’re the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters. Barry Eisler

The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don’t judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous; they judge other people without knowing the whole story. They want all the attention, and they’re mean spirited. John Waters

I’m more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don’t know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves. Vincent Cassel

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it’s not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it’s big numbers and small numbers that do the counting. Jack Bowman

You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men… I like playing bad guys, and I don’t have a problem doing that. They’re interesting characters, and there’s as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys – they’re rich, they’re strong, they’re powerful, and so that’s fine with me. Tobin Bell

I’ve never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys – and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after. Harry Dean Stanton

Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, ‘The Red Road’ blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act. Martin Henderson

There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior. Steven Seagal

I’m a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don’t like passive good guys. Lance Henriksen

The nWo almost singlehandedly ruined the business as far as good guys, bad guys, cowboys, and Indians. Booker T

I’m a bad girl. I always fall for good guys. Sonam Kapoor

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys. James MacArthur

You can date whoever you want, but you should marry the nerds and the good guys. Sheryl Sandberg

Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals. Frank Welker

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act. Wayne Dyer

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys. Caroline B. Cooney

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle. Jim Mattis

My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two. James Spader

It’s definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys. Tom Felton

Are there any good guys on ‘Prison Break?’ I suppose there might be. I can’t honestly say whether I’m a good guy or a bad guy or I’m a good guy in wolf’s clothing or sheep’s clothing. Chris Vance

Cleveland was my first team. It was awesome. We had a bunch of good guys – Sandy Alomar, Robbie Alomar, Carlos Baerga, Omar Vizquel. Oh, my, God. It was a blast, man. But you know, everything is going to pass. You have to be ready for it. Manny Ramirez

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always – if ever – capable of articulating their condition. Ron Carlson

I’ve already played with many good guys. But, if I have to highlight one, I take Mesut Ozil. Serge Gnabry

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top. Brad Feld

I wanted to be bad because the good guys were lying, cheating and swearing. Let me be bad by being good and I became a bad guy by being a good person. Bob Backlund

I remember thinking Democrats and liberals were the good guys. They cared about the little guy. They cared about poor people. They cared about minorities. Dave Rubin

Most of my career I purposely spent doing good guys. Joe Morton

I like playing good guys. Raymond Cruz

We all are who we are. We’re not necessarily good, and we’re not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys. Kyle Schmid

One of the amazing things about ‘Seven Samurai’ is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you’ve got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said. George Lucas

I’m going to try to play some good guys for a while and just see how that is. It’s hard to enjoy them as much as the bad guys, and the clothes are nowhere near as good. Good guys don’t wear nice suits! Mark Strong

Cinema explains American society. It’s like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don’t have a place. Jacques Delors

I think at this point in my life, I’d like to play more good guys than bad guys. Timothy Olyphant

I think George R. R. Martin made fantasy grow up. He brought a level of reality into the storytelling where you realize the good guys don’t always win and anyone can die, because that’s how life works. Bringing that level of reality into the story I think forced the genre to mature in a lot of ways that it hadn’t prior. Peter V. Brett

Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don’t have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees. John Travolta

You don’t want to make performances; you want to make people. When a project knows, ‘Okay, my bad guys need to be a little sympathetic, and my good guys need to have a bit of a mean streak,’ you’re off to a good start. Cameron Britton

I’d rather have too many good guys than not enough. It’s a nice problem. They sort themselves out because when guys fight each other, they determine who deserves the title shot, not me. Dana White

I’ve played quite a few good guys. Luke Evans

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black… and I love a good sword fight. Simon Sinek

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father. Summer Glau

Counter-insurgency warfare is not a simple thing… it’s not as simple as, like, good guys versus bad guys. It is a mess. Chelsea Manning

I’m an optimistic person, and I tend to bury my cynicism in what I read and the movies I watch. My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top. Brad Feld

I got to experience fighting some really good guys, like Demian Maia and Tyron Woodley who are top guys in the division. It was on a big stage, those fights. It gives me experience with top-level guys. Rory MacDonald

I admire Kings of Leon. I think their records are amazing. Just from hanging out with them, I can say they’re good guys. It’s cool to see that they get to do what they love. But I think they clearly have an appreciation for where they came from, and it has shaped who they are. Nick Jonas

I like to play characters, man. I almost don’t even think of them as good guys or bad guys. I know that’s a hard thing to realize, but I really just think of them as characters. Kevin Bacon

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that’s what I’m taking. Tyron Woodley

The appeal of ‘Hustle’ has always been that the con artists are actually very moral – we’ve simply made the villains the heroes, and the good guys always come out on top. Adrian Lester

A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There’s got to be good guys and there’s got to be bad guys. And that’s what people pay for – to see the bad guys get beat. Sonny Liston

Gadhafi opponents included many ‘good guys,’ but they never received the support necessary to govern a new Libya after he was gone. Pete Hoekstra

It’s important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced – as three-dimensional, as human – as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it’s a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in. Mahershala Ali

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I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.
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