Ricky Williams Quotes
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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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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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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 want people to think they can't die until they see me play.
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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 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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Tomorrow doesn't really exist.
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If I can walk, I'll play.
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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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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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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 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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I really do love football.
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The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
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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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One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
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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 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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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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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 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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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.
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My helmet is off; I'm not afraid anymore.
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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.