That’s kind of cool when you have guys at that top level, the best of the best, and they come and talk to you about you motivating them and inspiring them, i feel really good hearing that from them. It motivates me to do more and keep pushing when you’ve got guys all over the place, the top in the country, and they’re proud of me.

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Everybody in the stands was hyping me up. I got the guys I ’m here with hyping me up. It felt amazing, i was ready to go. I was ready to attack it.

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It was amazing, hearing the crowd and having the juices flowing, I mean I felt it, i did n’t know I had it in me.

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I feel like I could just start curling 225 right now and I ’m pretty sure come tomorrow, it’s going to be adrenalin just going crazy. I ’m excited about tomorrow. If I feel this good doing the bench press, I ca n’t wait to see how I am tomorrow. if I can inspire one, and they can inspire another and( soon we ’ll) inspire a thousand.

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It’s amazing to see how far I’ve come from not being able to bench the bar to throwing up 20 reps of 225 and being able to compete with the best here.

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I always hold Shaquem Griffin to a higher standard than a lot of people just because if we’re running drills, if I drop a ball, they’re going to like, ‘ Well, he dropped the ball because he has one hand. ’ If anybody else drops a ball, they’re going to be like, ‘ Well, maybe it was a bad ball, ’.

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I'm always gonna be smiling. I'm always gonna be in a good mood.

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I give all thanks to God. But I'm just here to play football.

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

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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.

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I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

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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.

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A lot of people in our generation like to make excuses about little things that really don't hinder them from doing what they want to. It always comes down to the work ethic.

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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.

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I get underestimated every single day.

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It's nothing, really, for me to be able to say it's overwhelming or anything. It's just - you do the interviews, you interact with everybody, and you make sure that, at the end of the day, you focus on why you're here, and that's to play football and make sure I can contribute as a teammate.

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It's no better feeling than coming into a game being the underdog, and everybody going around telling you you can't win, and people say we going to lose by this much and that much.

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There is no limit to what I can do.

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

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People don't wanna take a chance. And I just feel like that's what it was, it's like that in every single level I've been in, from little league to high school and college.

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