"If you got a disability or a handicap, that means you're limited to certain things. And I don't feel like I'm limited to nothing. I can do anything anybody else can do."
"Please don't tell me what I can't do."
"I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered."
"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."
"I think me having one hand made me work even harder than many other people."
"I get underestimated every single day."
"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."
"Don't matter if I am playing on special teams, don't matter if I am playing linebacker: I want to be the best at what I am doing."
"Everybody in this world deserves to show what they can do without anybody telling them they can't."
"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."
"I remember there was a time when I didn't get any attention at all. There was a time when I didn't have anybody asking what was going on and what I had to overcome, so it feels good."
"When I was at UCF, I played a lot of different positions, so I don't feel uncomfortable moving around."
"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."
"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."
"I'm going to keep proving people wrong because I have a lot of people to prove wrong, a lot of doubters."
"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."
"My expectations for myself were really high."
"I don't know how far, I don't know where I'm going to be or where I'm going to go, but I know this - if a team comes to grab me, I know they're going to get a special player, and I'm ready to show them what I can do and make sure I can contribute."
"I'm gonna be called Shaquem Griffin the football player, not Shaquem Griffin the one-hand wonder."
"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 I've been doing pretty well with showing people what I really can do."
"Usually, I don't just talk and not back it up."
"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?'"
"I always tell everybody, if I can inspire one, they can inspire one more, and I can inspire a thousand later."
"If you have two hands or 30 hands, show me what you can do, and we'll go from there."
