Ricky Williams Quotes
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I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
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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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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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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 have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
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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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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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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 funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.
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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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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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If I can walk, I'll play.
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Tomorrow doesn't really exist.
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I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.
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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 want people to think they can't die until they see me play.
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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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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 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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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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Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.
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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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I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.