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" I care about what's best for everyone around me. "
Doug Baldwin
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" I watched a lot of Jerry Rice's film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate him, and he didn't play with the same body language that I wanted to play with. "
Doug Baldwin
Film
Run
Play
" I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that. "
Doug Baldwin
Personal
Time
Focus
" I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard. "
Doug Baldwin
Work
Craft
Hard
" I've just stopped worrying about what the game plan looks like, how many targets am I going to have in a game, all of the stuff that would distract me when having fun out there on the football field. It's allowed me to be less stressed and enjoy my teammates more and go out there with a loose mentality and have more fun. "
Doug Baldwin
Football
Me
Having Fun
" Good instincts are vital to longevity in the NFL. "
Doug Baldwin
Good
NFL
Vital
" If you can play football, you can play football. Measurables at the combine don't change that. "
Doug Baldwin
Play
Football
Combine
" I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them. "
Doug Baldwin
Feel
Challenges
Mistakes
" I've been blessed enough to be on a great team, gone to the divisional round five years in a row or whatever it was. That's special. Not everybody gets an opportunity to do that. "
Doug Baldwin
Gone
Opportunity
Team
" I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new. "
Doug Baldwin
My Life
Play
Short
" I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger. "
Doug Baldwin
People
Me
Insecurity
" It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people. "
Doug Baldwin
People
Jealous
Easy
" We play a very violent sport, and sometimes it leads to a lot of emotion, a lot of testosterone getting built up, and it comes out in various ways. "
Doug Baldwin
Sometimes
Out
Emotion
" As we've grown as a country, we've allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don't know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people. "
Doug Baldwin
Questions
Country
Know
" Instincts are learned on the football field through experience. It's vital in sports because things happen so rapidly that you have to rely on your instincts at times to make quick decisions. "
Doug Baldwin
Decisions
Sports
Football
" As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable. "
Doug Baldwin
Control
Try
Power
" When I was younger, I took everything seriously, and I still do to some degree. "
Doug Baldwin
Still
Seriously
Everything
" I'm on the record as saying Andrew Luck can be the greatest quarterback who ever played the game of football. I've seen him do some unbelievable things that I still can't believe a quarterback was able to do. I have tremendous respect for that guy. "
Doug Baldwin
Football
Believe
Luck
" Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress. "
Doug Baldwin
Direction
Progress
You
" I'm a religious man. I believe in God. "
Doug Baldwin
Religious
God
Believe
" I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology. "
Doug Baldwin
Always
More
Technology
" The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own. "
Doug Baldwin
Tragedy
Own
Matters
" I give a lot of credit to Darrell Bevell and to Tom Cable for their work and their development of the players that they had that was available to them. They did an extraordinary job, and I do think, as Bevell was our offensive coordinator, we broke every record that the Seahawks had offensively. So there's a lot to be said for that. "
Doug Baldwin
Think
Said
Players
" My father's a police officer, and he's told me numerous times about his training and how they've gone through what they call verbal judo, which is essentially them trying to de-escalate the situation. "
Doug Baldwin
Situation
Father
Me
" There aren't enough people who are passionate with what they do. They're content just going through life being mediocre, being average. They don't want to thrive. They don't want to strive for greater. They're happy being where they are. "
Doug Baldwin
Thrive
Enough
People
" Here in Washington State, I've supported efforts to provide our law enforcement with the proper training and resources required to meet their changing and demanding needs of their job. In doing so, I feel that the community and the law enforcement relationship will gratefully benefit from a renewed sense of responsibility and accountability. "
Doug Baldwin
Job
Relationship
Community
" I think you have to have a bit of an anger-management issue, to be honest with you. Usually, slot guys are a lot smaller and quicker, but at the same time, you have to go in there and block linebackers and safeties, and so you have to be aggressive. "
Doug Baldwin
Think
Time
Aggressive
" We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football. "
Doug Baldwin
Playing
Reality
Football
" Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations. "
Doug Baldwin
Effort
Watching
Film
" You're always fighting the demons. "
Doug Baldwin
Demons
Always
You
" I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives. "
Doug Baldwin
Impact
Job
Own