Ricky Williams Quotes
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I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
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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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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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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
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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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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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If I can walk, I'll play.
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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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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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I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much.
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Tomorrow doesn't really exist.
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It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
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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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I want people to think they can't die until they see me play.
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One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.
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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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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 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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Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
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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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One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.
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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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I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things.