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Hard work pays off - hard work beats talent any day, but if you're talented and work hard, it's hard to be beat.

Robert Griffin III

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Robert Griffin III
Age: 34
Born: 1990
Born: February 12
American Football Player
Athletics Competitor
Football Player
Robert Lee Griffin III
RG3
RGIII
Robert Griffin
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The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.
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Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.
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One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.
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Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.
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I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.
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In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
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I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there and they can rely on in crunch time. I'm going to be the guy that they know will show up every day, every game, every play and show up on a consistently great level.
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I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I'm going to be excited to play for that team, and I can't wait to see myself in 'Madden' on that team.
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The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.
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I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.
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It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work
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I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.
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I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.
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As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.
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I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.
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I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college football player. If you're a good college football then you have the ability to be a great NFL player.
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There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.
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People would say I'm more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I'm not as physical a runner. But I am 6'2, 223, and I can throw with the best of them.
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My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.
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As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.
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