Ricky Williams Quotes
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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 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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Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
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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 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.
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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.
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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 am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time.
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As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.
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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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I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
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It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
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The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.
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People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
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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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In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.
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Tomorrow doesn't really exist.
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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 had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.
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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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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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Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.
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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.