Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.
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The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
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A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.
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Personality always wins the day.
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The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
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A good team needs time to play together.
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I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.
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For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.
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They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team.
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When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.
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I think, for me, it's very important to have a good team and to feel comfortable in the environment.
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If the politics of disease are to be understood, particularly in the dreadful countries where this understanding is most needed, then the politics of total collapse have to be understood first.
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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!
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I grew up nerdy, scrawny, playing video games, and getting picked on.
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You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
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People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.
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A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
