I made the decision to retire because there were some things about life I wanted to explore outside of football, ... ..... I'm very regretful that people were hurt in the process of me doing that. ..... I offer an apology to all of the people who were negatively hurt by my decision.
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The way I live my life, if I have a place to stay and I have food on the table, then I'm not broke.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.
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When he first got drafted, you heard people wonder why you'd take a No. 2 pick for a guy that didn't even start in college,
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The problem wasn't with the city, the sport, my teammates or my coach, even though I blamed all of them at one time or another. The problem was with me. But I didn't realize it back then because I hadn't been told that there was a clinical reason -- social anxiety disorder -- for everything odd I was feeling, everything from the depression to the shyness. I didn't understand that some of the things that were holding me back were chemical.
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And the answer was there was nothing.
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When I was in school, at the time he was the governor of Texas, ... Sometimes he would work out in our weight room. I had a chance to talk to him a couple of times. I was lifting, he was just riding a bike. I think he's a nice person.
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