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For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.
Robert Griffin III
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Robert Griffin III
Age: 34
Born: 1990
Born: February 12
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Robert Lee Griffin III
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I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.
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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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I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.
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It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.
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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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Teams are going to try to hit me because they think I can't take a hit. I think I've proven over my career that I can.
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I still don't think it's sunk in that I won the Heisman. I'll be able to reflect back on the season, appreciate those types of things and realize that although I wanted to 'be like Mike' when I was growing up, now I get to go out and be in the NFL.
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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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My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
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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.
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