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" People have said some really good things about my performance, and that's what I'm happy about, what I'm excited about. I was able to go out there, and like I said, I put my best foot forward. "
Robert Griffin III
People
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" To me, it's not necessarily about whom you vote for, it's more about the fact that you go out and exercise that right. There's a lot of people who fight for our right to vote and people in other countries fighting for other peoples' right to vote and I think everyone should exercise that vote. "
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" If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football. "
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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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Try
" 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. "
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" You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad. "
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School
Mind
" My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got. "
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I Can
Job
" For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him. "
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Best Friend
Friend
" Whatever team you go to, you want to have guys who help you be successful there. "
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Want
Help
" 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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Confident
Think
Best
" I know I'm the No. 1 quarterback for the Washington Redskins, and that's all that matters in my heart. That's all I wanted. I wanted a team that wanted me, and I found that. "
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Team
Me
Found
" Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that. "
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Dreams
Week
Try
" I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback. "
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Play
American
Best
" People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die. "
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Life
Me
Die
" 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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Am
Never
I Am
" There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with. "
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Professional
People
Football
" 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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Long
Difference
You
" 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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Myself
Football
Think
" Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit. "
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Negative
Run
I Can
" You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy. "
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Change
Just Because
You
" My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far. "
Robert Griffin III
Great
Family
Good
" 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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Hate
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Me
" Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special. "
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More
You
Think
" There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up. "
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Down
You
People
" Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on. "
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Respect
Going
Yourself
" 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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Parents
Color
Big
" You can say whatever you want; it doesn't matter. It doesn't faze me. I'll still go out and do what I have to do, whether that's making A's in the classroom or doing well on the field. "
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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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" 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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Exercise
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