Ricky Williams Quotes
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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 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 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'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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A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
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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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I'm a huge gamer, everything from PC to Xbox to PS2.
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I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.
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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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Everywhere I go, people hear Ricky Williams and the next thing they think is marijuana or wasted talent.
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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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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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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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I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.
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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.
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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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Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.
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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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I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
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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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I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.
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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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People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
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Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.