Ricky Williams Quotes
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I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
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I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.
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When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.
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I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
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Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
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I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.
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I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
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Everywhere I go, people hear Ricky Williams and the next thing they think is marijuana or wasted talent.
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I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
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And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street. ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke.
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I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different.
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Nine in the box... that's a football term.
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The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
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I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.
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I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.
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I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.
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I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.
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Everywhere I go, I hear 'Welcome back.' But everywhere I have been, I have always been with myself. I'm with myself now more than ever. It's funny people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
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I wouldn't eat a chicken if it dropped dead in front of me holding up a sign that said, Eat Me.
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At the core, we're all spiritual beings.
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I love myself. Because I'm all that I have and if I don't love myself, no one else will. Whenever I feel myself starting to dislike something I tell myself, "This is who I am," so what's the point in disliking it?
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I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
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I really do love football.
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I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.
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I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.
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There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
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I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
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Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
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I look very foolish. To a lot of people I look foolish in what I'm doing and I understand that. The only thing that matters is how I feel and if I let how they feel affect me it'll change how I feel.
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