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" All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in. "

Colin Kaepernick

Thought

Progress

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" I'm still trying to improve. Everything I can do to improve every part of my game - I'm going to do it. "

" As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things. "

" Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's the flashback feeling in a good way. Like I'm watching a rerun, because I've studied this defense and know what comes next. Now, that is a good feeling, when your mind is working fast because you've studied, and you realize, 'I've seen this before.' "

" I'm going out to play, and to play to win. "

" I'm not too big on feelings. "

" When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in. "

" What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry about. "

Colin Kaepernick

Things

People

" People are terrified of them to the point where Trump wants to ban all Muslims from coming here, which is ridiculous. "

" I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped. "

Colin Kaepernick

Want

Think

" I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are. "

" When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to and says, 'If we need a play to be made, let's go to him.' "

" You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those. "

" It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset. "

" I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback. "

" I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. "

" The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there. "

" I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play. "

" Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright. "

Colin Kaepernick

Blessed

God

" I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at. "

" I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that's leading the team or representing the organization. "

" I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this. "

" It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you know, if you look at the original picture where people addressed it, I was trying to sit behind the coolers and out of the way, 'cause I didn't want to interrupt anybody else's right to stand and hold attention to the flag. "

" A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it's a tragic situation where players aren't comfortable speaking what's on their mind or what's right because they're afraid of consequences that come along with it. That's not an ideal environment for anybody. "

" At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is. "

" We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for? "

" We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those. "

" I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. "

" People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody. "

" I'm here to play football. "

" I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was probably going before the ball was snapped. It makes it very easy when I only had to read one person and know that I was going from here to here, and if not, I'm checking it down. "