Quotes from Ricky Williams

I've never been in trouble with the police.

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

I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.

People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.

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.

At the core, we're all spiritual beings.

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.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

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

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.

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.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

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

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

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.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.