08-27-2015, 06:29 PM
(08-23-2015, 12:57 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Here is the whole quote, which is less about him claiming to be the best and more him making some cliched "believe in yourself" optimistic statement. RGIII is a bit of a mess as a QB and is looking like a big ol' bust for the DC squad but to act like he just walked out and said "I'm the best QB in the league" is misleading and something that reeks of bias. What would we say if Dalton said this exact thing? Or if Dalton said "I feel like I'm the 19th best QB in the league, and the statistics back it up!"
“I feel like I’m the best quarterback in the league, and I have to go out and show that,” Griffin told WJLA-TV, via ESPN.com. “Any athlete at any level, if they concede to someone else, they’re not a top competitor, they’re not trying to be the best that they can be.
“There’s guys in this league that have done way more than me. But I still view myself as the best because that’s what I work toward every single day.”
Yeah, I heard the whole quote, and sitting here reading it I feel exactly the same about it. I think it was an idiotic statement. My best friend lifts weights and has won some meets. He is not the world's strongest man. If he said, "I fell like I am the world's strongest man and I have to go out and show that... There's guys in competition that have lifted way more than me. But I still view myself as the strongest because that's what I work for every single day," I would think that too was an idiotic statement. I guess it would reek of the bias I have against my best friend. Same bias I have against RG III.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
