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.
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.
I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
At the core, we're all spiritual beings.
Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.
In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.
I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.
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.
I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.
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.
I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.
One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me.
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.
Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.
I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.
I'm a huge gamer, everything from PC to Xbox to PS2.
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.
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
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'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.
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 really do love football.
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.
Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.
