139 Quotes by Robert Griffin III

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.