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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 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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I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.
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I'm always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback.
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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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I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run.
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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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I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.
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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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Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.
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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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It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work
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There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.
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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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You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.
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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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In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
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