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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.

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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I hate to talk about myself like that, but if I had to straight up tell a head coach or an owner why they should take me, it's because I'm the best in everything I've done.
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In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
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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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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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The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.
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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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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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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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No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.
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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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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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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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It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work
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I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
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There's just a misconception that comes with being a dual-threat quarterback. You run first, throw second. I've proven I throw first and then run if I have to.
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It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.
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