Ricky Williams (Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr.) Quotes

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

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• I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.

  

  Eden Sher
  • People
  • Sound
  • Youth

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Man
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Bravery

• It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Forever

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Post-Industrial

• I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.

  

  Malcolm David Kelley
  • Dance
  • Down
  • Club

• My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Courage

• I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown! No mortal grief deserves that crown. O supreme Love, chief misery, The sharp regalia are for Thee Whose days eternally go on!'For us, - whatever's undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done, Grief may be joy misunderstood; Only the Good discerns the good. I trust Thee while my days go on.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Good
  • Done
  • May

• You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Heart
  • She
  • Remember

• I don't go to pubs.

  

  Peter Capaldi

• I've been fascinated with all kinds of weapons my whole life, and as I have been able to afford to acquire pieces, here and there I started to collect.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Weapons
  • Collection

• I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • World
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I always have eaten really healthy, but I'm not a diet freak.

  

  Behati Prinsloo

• The skylines of Buffalo, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, some 40 miles away, can be seen from the eight observation areas of the Seagram Tower.

  

  Joan Lingard

• Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• Education is very important, and I understand that.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
  • Important
  • Education

• I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

  

  Vinny Testaverde
  • Feelings
  • Expectations
  • Excited

• Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

  

  Aristotle
  • History
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Good

• But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!"

  

  Tony Palermo Papa Roach
  • Play
  • Energetic
  • Forcing

• I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

  

  Ricky Williams