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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 can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was.
Ricky Williams
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I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.
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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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Tomorrow doesn't really exist.
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To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
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It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
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Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
Ricky Williams
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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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I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.
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Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.
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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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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
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Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.
Ricky Williams
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I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.
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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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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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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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I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that.
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I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.
Ricky Williams
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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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My whole thing in life is I just want freedom. I thought that money would give me that freedom. I was wrong. It bound me more than it freed me, because now I had more things to worry about, more people asking for money, I thought I had to buy a house and nice cars and different things that people with money are supposed to do.
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The more I pay attention to what's going on inside, the more I realize that how I feel, and how I react to what I feel, really creates my reality. And the more in touch I can be, the better chance I have to control what's happening in my life.
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Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it.
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