Ricky Williams Quotes
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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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Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what 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 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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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 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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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 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've never been in trouble with the police.
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Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
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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 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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My helmet is off; I'm not afraid anymore.
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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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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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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 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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The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
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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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At the core, we're all spiritual beings.
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Coaches want so many things from a back. It's hard to find someone like Edgerrin James or Marshall Faulk, someone you can trust to block, catch and be physical. But I can do all those things.