Top 70 Robert Griffin III Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.”

— Robert Griffin III

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2. “You will find that success in life comes far easier when you maintain a cool head and a warm heart, rather than a hot head and cold feet.”

— Robert Griffin III

3. “Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.”

— Robert Griffin III

4. “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

5. “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

6. “I don’t do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don’t do too much, don’t really go out at all that much, don’t eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.”

— Robert Griffin III

7. “I like to think I’m pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable.”

— Robert Griffin III

8. “Man, I love the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies. Some people would say I’m weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.”

— Robert Griffin III

9. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

10. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

11. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

12. “Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you’re putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.”

— Robert Griffin III

13. “In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.”

— Robert Griffin III

14. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

15. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

16. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

17. “Every time I step out on that field, I’m 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I’m out there dealing with. I know what I’m out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I’m 100 percent.”

— Robert Griffin III

18. “You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.”

— Robert Griffin III

19. “You don’t have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.”

— Robert Griffin III

20. “You know, I started this process of being a football player and I’m going to make it to the NFL very soon and I plan on finishing that. And by ‘finishing that,’ I mean that I’m going to go out and be the best that I can be and put everything forth to make that happen.”

— Robert Griffin III

21. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

22. “I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don’t have to be defined by that.”

— Robert Griffin III

23. “I still don’t think it’s sunk in that I won the Heisman. I’ll be able to reflect back on the season, appreciate those types of things and realize that although I wanted to ‘be like Mike’ when I was growing up, now I get to go out and be in the NFL.”

— Robert Griffin III

24. “There’s a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.”

— Robert Griffin III

25. “I try to associate myself as just being myself – and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.”

— Robert Griffin III

26. “It’s believable because great things don’t happen without hard work.”

— Robert Griffin III

27. “Whatever team you go to, you want to have guys who help you be successful there.”

— Robert Griffin III

28. “If you’re out there stressing on your pro day, then you’re not going to perform well, so I plan on having a little fun. Play a little music while we’re out there throwing the football, have everybody tapping their toes and bobbing their head and just go out there and make the most of the experience.”

— Robert Griffin III

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29. “When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don’t distract you, that means you’re focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.”

— Robert Griffin III

30. “My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn’t have a big part in my self-identity.”

— Robert Griffin III

31. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

32. “It’s not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone’s got it. It’s about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that’s something that I’ve always done.”

— Robert Griffin III

33. “Sometimes people think it’s what you say when you’re in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it’s the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I’ve done that a lot. Not intentionally – it just happens.”

— Robert Griffin III

34. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

35. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

36. “For me, a quarterback’s best friend, especially a young quarterback’s best friend, is a coach who believes in him.”

— Robert Griffin III

37. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

38. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

39. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

40. “The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold – I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.”

— Robert Griffin III

41. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

42. “I think I’m starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don’t need to.”

— Robert Griffin III

43. “As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I’m focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I’m not going to slam it in its face.”

— Robert Griffin III

44. “I’m always studying. I probably wrote the most papers of any college quarterback.”

— Robert Griffin III

45. “I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be ‘the’ guy, the guy that can go out there and they can rely on in crunch time. I’m going to be the guy that they know will show up every day, every game, every play and show up on a consistently great level.”

— Robert Griffin III

46. “I try to go through my reads and then, if I have the option to run, I do run.”

— Robert Griffin III

47. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III

48. “I have no preferred team, but everyone wants to go No. 1 in the draft. Even the guy who gets picked last in the draft wants to go No. 1. But I just know that whoever picks me, I’m going to be excited to play for that team, and I can’t wait to see myself in ‘Madden’ on that team.”

— Robert Griffin III

49. “As a quarterback, obviously, you’re going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you’re not then you’re not doing your job.”

— Robert Griffin III

50. “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.”

— Robert Griffin III