I'm always gonna be smiling. I'm always gonna be in a good mood.
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.
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 don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.
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.
There is no limit to what I can do.
My dad owns his own towing business, and my dad used to tow Hulk Hogan's cars back and forth from Clearwater to different shops and stuff. And they had a relationship where when the cars would get done getting fixed, he'd pick it back up and take it back to Hulk Hogan's house.
I get underestimated every single day.
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'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.
Please don't tell me what I can't do.
The only thing you are really here to do is play football. So when you get a chance to go to the draft, and that part is over with, and you get signed on to a team, and you're ready to go, now it's back to everything you've been doing to get to this point, and that's play football.
Anywhere I go - if it's in the country, out of the country - someone is going to know you.
I never let one hand stop me from doing what I needed to do to get down field and win games.
Even without football, football doesn't define Shaquem Griffin. It's who he can help that defines him.
No matter if you have one hand or two hands, when someone tells you you can't do something, the only thing you can do is just prove them wrong, no matter what it is, no matter how hard it is.
I give all thanks to God. But I'm just here to play football.
You're not disabled unless you say 'I'm disabled.'
I think me having one hand made me work even harder than many other people.
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.
