Quotes By Ricky Williams

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.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

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.

The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

Nine in the box... that's a football term.

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.

It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.

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.

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

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.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.

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.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.