Mo Williams Quotes

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

I gave my eardrums to MGM. And it's true: I really did.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

Nine in the box... that's a football term.

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit

Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

Be prepared for luck.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother

I have, throughout my private war, been a she, a you,a Donna, a me, and finally, an I....If you sense distance,you're not mistaken; it's real. Welcome to my world.

George Clooney is a wonderful philanthropist. But I've heard regular people say, "Would he just shut up and be hot?"

Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.

I tried to put a bird in a cage. O fool that I am! For the bird was Truth. Sing merrily, Truth: I tried to put Truth in a cage!

A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.

If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there.

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

Don't judge. Don't stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are.

Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

Love is a young green willow shimmering at the bare wood's edge

Whoever is across the net, I want to win. Whoever that person is, that's the day I want to win.

I am someone who likes to stay positive.

Everyone in this life is defeated but a man, if he be a man, is not defeated.

When youre on top, youre on top.

Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.