Quotes from Shaquem Griffin

I think I've been doing pretty well with showing people what I really can do.

My mom saw me do my first pull-up my freshman year, and she's emotional, and she started crying. She walked out, and I thought, 'You've got to let her be sometimes.' She does that.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

People don't wanna take a chance. And I just feel like that's what it was, it's like that in every single level I've been in, from little league to high school and college.

You want me to play kicker or punter, all I gotta do is get a good stretch in and warm my foot up. I think I can kick the ball, too.

I took a couple footballs to the face before I learned to catch.

I remember after the surgery, the next day, my mom was like, you know, 'Don't get your bandage dirty. Don't go outside and throw the ball.' But I came back inside with a football in my hand with a bloody bandage, but I knew I felt better. And I was just happy to play.

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

I looked into the rule book, and I never seen a rule of only two-handed players can play football.

When I started lifting weights, I remember I could barely bench the bar. I mean, I'm shaking all over the place, the bar's falling, and I'm like, 'I can't lift 45 pounds,' but it just goes to show how much work I put in.

Even without football, football doesn't define Shaquem Griffin. It's who he can help that defines him.

I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.

It's nothing, really, for me to be able to say it's overwhelming or anything. It's just - you do the interviews, you interact with everybody, and you make sure that, at the end of the day, you focus on why you're here, and that's to play football and make sure I can contribute as a teammate.

A lot of people see somebody who has one hand and not two, and they think it doesn't make sense. It's like, 'He has one hand, so how can he play football?' What if I say, 'You have two hands. How can you play football?'

I want to be able to show NFL teams, Whatever you need help at, I can play it.

Don't matter if I am playing on special teams, don't matter if I am playing linebacker: I want to be the best at what I am doing.

I can't let anybody tell me what I'm going to be.

Everybody in this world deserves to show what they can do without anybody telling them they can't.

I'm going to keep proving people wrong because I have a lot of people to prove wrong, a lot of doubters.

I knew no matter how good I did, no matter everything that I pushed for, there's always gonna be some type of doubt. Some people want to put limitations on what I can do.

I'm gonna be called Shaquem Griffin the football player, not Shaquem Griffin the one-hand wonder.

I give all thanks to God. But I'm just here to play football.

Having faith and trust that one day things will be greater, it sometimes is the one thing you need to stay positive in a negative situation.

I always tell everybody, if I can inspire one, they can inspire one more, and I can inspire a thousand later.