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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I had a lot of times with Wales as well when we were getting beat - and beaten well - and you learn to deal with it. You learn that next time it happens, you roll your sleeves up and give everything for the team.
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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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If you have people invested emotionally in the success of their team, that usually translates to strong attendance.
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And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
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Just a few short years ago in the year 2000, the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration, this country was running a surplus of $236 billion.
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I've always gone into the studio with a very clear understanding of a song, of the words or, if it's an instrumental piece, of the melodies, and that never changes.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
