A biography for Ricky Williamshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.”
“I really do love football.”
“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.”
“It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.”
“The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.”
“Tomorrow doesn't really exist.”
“A team takes on the personality of the head coach.”
“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.”
“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.”
“At the core, we're all spiritual beings.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.”
“Nine in the box... that's a football term.”
“I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.”
“In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.”
“Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.”
“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.”