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" 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. "

Colin Kaepernick

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" My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is your family.' I can remember my mom, she tells me this story: when I was little, I was looking at her, and I was like, 'Why isn't my skin the same color as yours?' She was like, 'Oh, you're adopted, but I wish I had pretty brown skin like you.' "

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" I'll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan. "

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" People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business. "

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

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

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" This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't. "

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" 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. "

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" I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone. "

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" Unless you're being carted off, you should be on the field. "

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" You have to take care of the ball to win football games. "

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" I felt the way people talked to me was like, 'It's OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,' and things like that. That's never been my approach. "

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" 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.' "

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" I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of. "

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" I haven't seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet. "

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" I have great teammates around me who make plays. "

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" I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" I wouldn't say there is one specific designer I rock. It's more of the look of the shirt and what occasion and where I'm wearing it to. "

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" I'm not too big on feelings. "

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" Feelings aren't going to help me win a game. "

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" I refuse to take shortcuts. "

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" When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music. "

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