Ricky Williams Quotes
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I've followed freedom for a long time and I finally feel I've got more of it. People talk about the money that I've given up and the money that I've lost. But the knowledge and the wisdom that I've gotten from this experience is priceless.
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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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Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.
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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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It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself.
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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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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'm a huge gamer, everything from PC to Xbox to PS2.
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I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.
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A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
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I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.
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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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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 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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After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I’m supposed to go to the NFL and so that’s what I did. I didn’t really have any expectations and I didn’t really understand how things worked.
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If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.
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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 halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.
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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.
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I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
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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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Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
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And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.
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I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.