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RB Ryan Williams: Cowboys made me ‘fall in love with football’
Babe Laufenberg Email brandonlaufenberg40@gmail.com
Published: May 29, 2015 1:45 pm
Dallas Cowboys running back Ryan Williams recently spoke with former Cowboys quarterback and radio color-commentator Babe Laufenberg. Here are some of the highlights:
On how many teams tried to get him on their active roster last season:
Williams: “I can’t remember exactly, but I know it was between five and 10.”
On why he didn’t leave; it would have been a lot more money:
Williams: “Money is not an issue for me. I feel like when you chase money, you’re chasing the wrong thing. I’m chasing happiness. The Cowboys have always been my favorite team since I can remember. The Cowboys made me fall in love with football. I’m thinking about the bigger picture, and that’s Ryan Williams being happy. Set aside from everything else, the money is always going to be there. I grew up — my mother never made money like this, and she raised three grown boys by herself. So if I can grow up in that household with the money that she made I can live life easily with the money that I’m making now. So money isn’t a big thing. It’s the dream. It’s almost surreal because ea lot of these players grew up with a favorite team and probably went through the draft thong that they would be drafted by their favorite team. I ended up not doing that, but luckily I ended up being with my favorite team so everything happens for a reason, and I really feel like God has been on my side.”
On what team looked like it might not have been a bad situation for him:
Williams: “You know what, any time my agent called me, I said ‘no.’ I told him to decline every team, regardless of what was going on. I didn’t care who called, where they’re from, what they was offering; I wanted to be right here. Because you know what, it’s bigger than that. Not many times you can go into an organization and you can fall in love with the coaches, you can fall in love with the system, you can fall in love with the trainers. Everything about this organization made me want to be here. I don’t want to go anywhere else where I’m not happy. I don’t want to go anywhere else where I don’t like the coach. I don’t want to go anywhere else where I feel like something is being said about me which shouldn’t be said about me, because it’s not right. I want to be right here.”
On not being a part of the team last year on Sundays:
Williams: “I wouldn’t’ say it was that difficult, but coming from wheat I went from with the patella tendon injury, and me feeling like I was healthy the past two years and then not being able to play was pretty difficult. Watching the team succeed, I can put my ego to the side, I can put my pride to the side. I can put my personal goals to the side because it really wasn’t about what I wanted. Watching these guys do what they did last year, coming from what everybody thought we was going to do was blessing. And to be a part of that, I was still a part of that even though I didn’t play on Sundays. I was still a part of it coming up here practicing every day and making plays. Every day I don’t look at it like that. Every day I look at it as still a blessing to be here, because I promise you – I was diagnosed on the field in 2011 my second preseason game after coach (Ken) Whisenhunt, he praised me for making plays and the team praised me.
“I can remember Joey Porter, me sitting in the training room right by Joey Porter and he saying to me, ‘look man you’re going to have a hell of a year. I’m telling all my boys that you’re my dark horse because nobody knows about you.’ Then my whole life changed. My whole life changed within a week. Then when I got work, I asked my trainer that diagnosed me – because they couldn’t find my kneecap – so then when they were searching for my kneecap, they told me that I had tore my patella tendon. I didn’t even know what that was at the time. I asked when I will be back. They said you can be healed, but you probably never be the same. That runs through my head. Every single day. So when people asking me about me getting my knee scoped out or when my knee’s swelled up, you got to understand what I’ve been through, when I’ve been through having a swollen knee, having a knee scoped, that’s noting compared to having your kneecap in your thigh. That’s nothing compared to basically having your whole knee constructed. There’s nothing compared to being bashed by the media, being looked at differently from everybody else. There’s nothing compared to that. So I came from that. I’m too strong for anybody now, for anything now. If anybody got something to say about me, I laugh at it, I just tell them to watch me work.”
Babe Laufenberg Email brandonlaufenberg40@gmail.com
Published: May 29, 2015 1:45 pm
Dallas Cowboys running back Ryan Williams recently spoke with former Cowboys quarterback and radio color-commentator Babe Laufenberg. Here are some of the highlights:
On how many teams tried to get him on their active roster last season:
Williams: “I can’t remember exactly, but I know it was between five and 10.”
On why he didn’t leave; it would have been a lot more money:
Williams: “Money is not an issue for me. I feel like when you chase money, you’re chasing the wrong thing. I’m chasing happiness. The Cowboys have always been my favorite team since I can remember. The Cowboys made me fall in love with football. I’m thinking about the bigger picture, and that’s Ryan Williams being happy. Set aside from everything else, the money is always going to be there. I grew up — my mother never made money like this, and she raised three grown boys by herself. So if I can grow up in that household with the money that she made I can live life easily with the money that I’m making now. So money isn’t a big thing. It’s the dream. It’s almost surreal because ea lot of these players grew up with a favorite team and probably went through the draft thong that they would be drafted by their favorite team. I ended up not doing that, but luckily I ended up being with my favorite team so everything happens for a reason, and I really feel like God has been on my side.”
On what team looked like it might not have been a bad situation for him:
Williams: “You know what, any time my agent called me, I said ‘no.’ I told him to decline every team, regardless of what was going on. I didn’t care who called, where they’re from, what they was offering; I wanted to be right here. Because you know what, it’s bigger than that. Not many times you can go into an organization and you can fall in love with the coaches, you can fall in love with the system, you can fall in love with the trainers. Everything about this organization made me want to be here. I don’t want to go anywhere else where I’m not happy. I don’t want to go anywhere else where I don’t like the coach. I don’t want to go anywhere else where I feel like something is being said about me which shouldn’t be said about me, because it’s not right. I want to be right here.”
On not being a part of the team last year on Sundays:
Williams: “I wouldn’t’ say it was that difficult, but coming from wheat I went from with the patella tendon injury, and me feeling like I was healthy the past two years and then not being able to play was pretty difficult. Watching the team succeed, I can put my ego to the side, I can put my pride to the side. I can put my personal goals to the side because it really wasn’t about what I wanted. Watching these guys do what they did last year, coming from what everybody thought we was going to do was blessing. And to be a part of that, I was still a part of that even though I didn’t play on Sundays. I was still a part of it coming up here practicing every day and making plays. Every day I don’t look at it like that. Every day I look at it as still a blessing to be here, because I promise you – I was diagnosed on the field in 2011 my second preseason game after coach (Ken) Whisenhunt, he praised me for making plays and the team praised me.
“I can remember Joey Porter, me sitting in the training room right by Joey Porter and he saying to me, ‘look man you’re going to have a hell of a year. I’m telling all my boys that you’re my dark horse because nobody knows about you.’ Then my whole life changed. My whole life changed within a week. Then when I got work, I asked my trainer that diagnosed me – because they couldn’t find my kneecap – so then when they were searching for my kneecap, they told me that I had tore my patella tendon. I didn’t even know what that was at the time. I asked when I will be back. They said you can be healed, but you probably never be the same. That runs through my head. Every single day. So when people asking me about me getting my knee scoped out or when my knee’s swelled up, you got to understand what I’ve been through, when I’ve been through having a swollen knee, having a knee scoped, that’s noting compared to having your kneecap in your thigh. That’s nothing compared to basically having your whole knee constructed. There’s nothing compared to being bashed by the media, being looked at differently from everybody else. There’s nothing compared to that. So I came from that. I’m too strong for anybody now, for anything now. If anybody got something to say about me, I laugh at it, I just tell them to watch me work.”
