Best Ricky Williams Quotes & Sayings

After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I'm supposed to go to the NFL and so that's what I did. I didn't really have any expectations and I didn't really understand how things worked. — Ricky Williams

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all. — Ricky Williams

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. — Ricky Williams

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. — Ricky Williams

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. — Ricky Williams

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

Nine in the box ... that's a football term. — Ricky Williams

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. — Ricky Williams

One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me. — Ricky Williams

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

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.' — Ricky Williams

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. — Ricky Williams

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. — Ricky Williams

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

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life. — Ricky Williams

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now. — Ricky Williams

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently. — Ricky Williams

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. — Ricky Williams

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

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

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

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself. — Ricky Williams

I think Ricky Williams had his time in the limelight. And I think it was good for what it was worth, and that was that. — Ricky Williams

Everywhere I go, people hear Ricky Williams and the next thing they think is marijuana or wasted talent. — Ricky Williams

Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity. — Ricky Williams

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

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

I really do love football. — Ricky Williams

If I can walk, I'll play. — Ricky Williams

It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they'll go find someone else's story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it's more interesting to get to know the person myself. — Ricky Williams

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. — Ricky Williams

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much. — Ricky Williams

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

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. — Ricky Williams