I dont think Ill ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. Its not in my nature. – Ricky Williams
To talk about balance, its easier to talk about whats 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 theres disease, youre out of balance, whether its jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear. – Ricky Williams
I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didnt feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went. – Ricky Williams
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 Ive grown as a person so much. – Ricky Williams
The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country