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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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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Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's 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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Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
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I'm a huge gamer, everything from PC to Xbox to PS2.
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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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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 am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.
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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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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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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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Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.
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I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.
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Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.
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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.
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I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
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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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People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.