Shaquem Griffin

“Anywhere I go - if it's in the country, out of the country - someone is going to know you.”

“I never let one hand stop me from doing what I needed to do to get down field and win games.”

“It was a competitive household. If I wanted to win at something, I had to work for it. It made me understand I could do anything I put my mind to.”

“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.”

“The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.”

“The more I show what I'm going through, the more I can give answers, the more I can help those on the outside looking in.”

“There were so many stories and so many instances where I had guys telling me that this game was for two-handed players and not for one-handed players, and I'll go out here and get myself hurt.”

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

“My expectations for myself were really high.”

“If you got a disability or a handicap, that means you're limited to certain things. And I don't feel like I'm limited to nothing. I can do anything anybody else can do.”

“If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.”

“A lot of people say, 'Do you feel a lot of pressure?' There's not that much pressure, to be honest.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Nobody was ever going to tell me that I didn't belong on a football field. And nobody was ever going to tell me that I couldn't be great.”

“I got to prove myself every single day. I'm not going to get comfortable where I'm at.”

“It doesn't feel like anything I have is a disability because I can do anything I put my mind to.”

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