Rick Ross Quotes & Sayings

#1. You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.

Rick Ross

#2. These haters can't hold me back

Rick Ross

#3. I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

Rick Ross

#4. I said 'boss' and I meant that, advance you spent that
Corvette so clean, you'll think Bruce Springsteen rent that

Rick Ross

#5. Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Rick Ross

#6. There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Rick Ross

#7. If you're a hater we make you scared to show your face. It's called success.

Rick Ross

#8. I'm from where your hustle determines your salary.

Rick Ross

#9. Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza

Rick Ross

#10. I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

Rick Ross

#11. All I ever wanted was to make scrilla / Have a recording session with J Dilla.

Rick Ross

#12. Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

Rick Ross

#13. Living fast where it's all about the money bags? Never front.

Rick Ross

#14. You gotta judge a man by his principles.

Rick Ross

#15. I remember when I couldn't afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime.

Rick Ross

#16. Am I really just a narcissist,
Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?

Rick Ross

#17. I didn't understand that you could go to jail for the rest of your life for selling cocaine. I thought life sentences were for murderers. I didn't know that you could get it for supplying something to someone that they asked you for.

Rick Ross

#18. However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult intervention now practiced is voluntary-with the exception of minor children under the direct supervision of a custodial parent.

Rick Ross

#19. I'd never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I'd never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

Rick Ross

#20. Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil ...

Rick Ross

#21. I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

Rick Ross

#22. I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

Rick Ross

#23. When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Rick Ross

#24. I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

Rick Ross

#25. I'm single, I'm enjoying life. Being a boss. Like all true bosses, one day you gotta give it up.

Rick Ross

#26. This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

Rick Ross

#27. Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

Rick Ross

#28. I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.

Rick Ross

#29. Every boss started as a worker.

Rick Ross

#30. Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.

Rick Ross

#31. The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

Rick Ross

#32. Through "deprogramming" or cult intervention the only issues that are addressed focus upon the specific group and group involvement. The subject of such an intervention subsequently may leave the group and go on with their life reassuming their own basic individual values and beliefs.

Rick Ross

#33. I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

Rick Ross

#34. Got a budget for the lawyer though.

Rick Ross

#35. Love is for free, just expensive to shop.

Rick Ross

#36. In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.

Rick Ross

#37. Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

Rick Ross

#38. Two, let's all stop smoking blunts; let's smoke out of papers. Ladies, you all should just love me. Let's all have a beautiful year, let's get this money.

Rick Ross

#39. Nah, that's not true.

Rick Ross

#40. At one time, due to the reluctance of cult groups to allow members to dialogue with their families and professionals about their involvement (or even to allow families access to a loved one) -"involuntary deprogramming" became the choice of some families as a last resort.

Rick Ross