SHAQUEM GRIFFIN

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 gonna be called Shaquem Griffin the football player, not Shaquem Griffin the one-hand wonder.

I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.

I want to be able to show NFL teams, Whatever you need help at, I can play it.

Even without football, football doesn't define Shaquem Griffin. It's who he can help that defines him.

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 don't feel like I'm overwhelmed from meeting people and telling my story over and over again.

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.

Everybody in this world deserves to show what they can do without anybody telling them they can't.

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.

If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there.

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.

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.

I've played football one-handed. I've played football with no hands.

I couldn't ask for anything in the world than to be with my brother.

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?'

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.

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.

I always tell everybody, if I can inspire one, they can inspire one more, and I can inspire a thousand later.

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.

I think me having one hand made me work even harder than many other people.

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 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 never let one hand stop me from doing what I needed to do to get down field and win games.

It doesn't feel like anything I have is a disability because I can do anything I put my mind to.