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There is no limit to what I can do.
Please don't tell me what I can't do.
I get underestimated every single day.
You're not disabled unless you say 'I'm disabled.'
I give all thanks to God. But I'm just here to play football.
I took a couple footballs to the face before I learned to catch.
I'm always gonna be smiling. I'm always gonna be in a good mood.
I think me having one hand made me work even harder than many other people.
At some point, your physical ability, it can't be the only thing you rely on.
I think I've been doing pretty well with showing people what I really can do.
I want to be able to show NFL teams, Whatever you need help at, I can play it.
Me holding a grudge is not going to help me. It's not going to make me any better.
I got to prove myself every single day. I'm not going to get comfortable where I'm at.
You'll never see me coming around the corner not smiling... I mean, I enjoy every moment.
I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.
I don't feel like I'm overwhelmed from meeting people and telling my story over and over again.
It doesn't feel like anything I have is a disability because I can do anything I put my mind to.
I'm gonna be called Shaquem Griffin the football player, not Shaquem Griffin the one-hand wonder.
I looked into the rule book, and I never seen a rule of only two-handed players can play football.
Everybody in this world deserves to show what they can do without anybody telling them they can't.
A lot of people say, 'Do you feel a lot of pressure?' There's not that much pressure, to be honest.
Even without football, football doesn't define Shaquem Griffin. It's who he can help that defines him.
When I was at UCF, I played a lot of different positions, so I don't feel uncomfortable moving around.
I'm going to keep proving people wrong because I have a lot of people to prove wrong, a lot of doubters.
I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.
I always tell everybody, if I can inspire one, they can inspire one more, and I can inspire a thousand later.
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 you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.
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.
It doesn't matter where I play at - as long as I get an opportunity to help better my team in any aspect, I'll play anything.
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.
You want me to play kicker or punter, all I gotta do is get a good stretch in and warm my foot up. I think I can kick the ball, too.
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.
Having faith and trust that one day things will be greater, it sometimes is the one thing you need to stay positive in a negative situation.
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.
I refused to let my brother down, because he sacrificed for me. And I always told him, 'As long as one of us playing football, we both playing football.'
I'm not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That's how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it's up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.
Obviously, it was tough for me, coming from high school and being that guy who was always playing and then having to sit and wait my turn... Mentally, it was taxing.
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.
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.
People don't wanna take a chance. And I just feel like that's what it was, it's like that in every single level I've been in, from little league to high school and college.
A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.
My mom saw me do my first pull-up my freshman year, and she's emotional, and she started crying. She walked out, and I thought, 'You've got to let her be sometimes.' She does that.
It's no better feeling than coming into a game being the underdog, and everybody going around telling you you can't win, and people say we going to lose by this much and that much.
It was like a roller coaster at UCF, with highs and lows, but overall, it was a good ride. You look at the stadium and see 'National Champions.' It doesn't get any better than that.
I remember there was a time when I didn't get any attention at all. There was a time when I didn't have anybody asking what was going on and what I had to overcome, so it feels good.
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.
A lot of people see somebody who has one hand and not two, and they think it doesn't make sense. It's like, 'He has one hand, so how can he play football?' What if I say, 'You have two hands. How can you play football?'
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 don't know how far, I don't know where I'm going to be or where I'm going to go, but I know this - if a team comes to grab me, I know they're going to get a special player, and I'm ready to show them what I can do and make sure I can contribute.