Ricky Williams Quotes
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If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.
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What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities.
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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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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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It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.
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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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I got high, and forgot I wasn't supposed to get high.
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As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.
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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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If I can walk, I'll play.
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Nine in the box... that's a football term.
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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 would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.
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I've always been shy, but in New Orleans there were times my shyness would cause me actual physical pain. I'd get so claustrophobic around people that I'd bend over from the sickness in my stomach. That's not a good way to be when you're famous, obviously.
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Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it.
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I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.
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Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.
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Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
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Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity.
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I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.
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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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I love myself. Because I'm all that I have and if I don't love myself, no one else will. Whenever I feel myself starting to dislike something I tell myself, "This is who I am," so what's the point in disliking it?
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When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.
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I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.