Ricky Williams Quotes
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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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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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If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
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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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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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Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.
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In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.
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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 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.
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Tomorrow doesn't really exist.
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One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
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The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
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I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.
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I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
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There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.
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I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.
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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 really do love football.
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Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
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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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I look very foolish. To a lot of people I look foolish in what I'm doing and I understand that. The only thing that matters is how I feel and if I let how they feel affect me it'll change how I feel.
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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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I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
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Everywhere I go, I hear 'Welcome back.' But everywhere I have been, I have always been with myself. I'm with myself now more than ever. It's funny people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.