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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.
- Ricky Williams
#Face
#Football
#Me
#Media
#Meetings
Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.
- Ricky Williams
#Maturity
#Sometimes
#Success
#Way
#Will
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
- Ricky Williams
#Challenges
#Football
#Great
#Yourself
Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
- Ricky Williams
#Barbie
#Growing Up
#Myself
#Up
#Yourself
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Football
#Me
#See
#Stupid
#Whatever
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Good
#Living
#Moment
#Nothing
#World
It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.
- Ricky Williams
#Down
#Life
#Meaning
#Search
#Soul
I've never been in trouble with the police.
- Ricky Williams
#Been
#Never
#Police
#Trouble
Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.
- Ricky Williams
#History
#Part
#Place
#Special
#Tradition
At the core, we're all spiritual beings.
- Ricky Williams
#Core
#Spiritual Beings
#Spiritual
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
- Ricky Williams
#Lose
#People
#Reality
#Sometimes
#Sports
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Courage
#Face
#Life
#Man
#Real
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Achieve
#Little Things
#Start
#Want
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Chance
#Football
#Myself
#Travel
#World
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Better
#Body
#Good
#Learning
#Trauma
I'm a huge gamer, everything from PC to Xbox to PS2.
- Ricky Williams
#Everything
#Gamer
#Huge
#PC
#Xbox
In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.
- Ricky Williams
#I See
#Mirror
#Myself
#See
#Therapy
I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
- Ricky Williams
#Bad
#Easy
#Good And Bad
#Good
#People
If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.
- Ricky Williams
#Bible
#God
#Replace
#Right
#Truth
A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
- Ricky Williams
#Coach
#Head
#Personality
#Takes
#Team
One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
- Ricky Williams
#Go
#Joy
#Let Go
#Life
#Ride
I don't believe in regret.
- Ricky Williams
#Believe
#Regret
I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.
- Ricky Williams
#Care
#I Am
#Me
#Pain
#People
I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.
- Ricky Williams
#Always
#Dark
#Go
#Never
#Place
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Best
#Football
#I Am
#Man
#Person
I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
- Ricky Williams
#Form
#Life
#My Life
#Negativity
#Room
There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
- Ricky Williams
#Control
#Life
#Own
#Success
#Try
I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.
- Ricky Williams
#Fans
#Me
#Overcome
#Strength
#Want
To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
- Ricky Williams
#Anger
#Balance
#Fear
#Greed
#Jealousy
#Time
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Chance
#Control
#Life
#My Life
#Reality
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Acting
#College
#Football
#New
#Want
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.
- Ricky Williams
#Change
#I Am
#Mature
#Maturity
#Today
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