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" I play football because I love the game and I put everything into it. "
Doug Baldwin
Football
Play
Love
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" 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. "
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" I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology. "
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" If you take a step back and you look at the overall picture, there's a lot of teams in this league that could use a quarterback of Colin Kaepernick's ability. "
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" 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. "
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" If you want to get anything done, you have to start somewhere. "
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Somewhere
" It's been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community. "
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" 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. "
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" We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football. "
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" It's not going to matter, but there's a part of me, a human part of me, that wants to be 60 years old, watching a Seahawks game, and they're talking about the days back when I was playing. I want to be able to feel that. I want to know what that feels like. "
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Know
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" Let's be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn't mean their opinion is an intelligent one. "
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Intelligent
Got
Opinion
" I'm not one of those typical receivers who's like a robot in the slot or outside. "
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Outside
Like
Those
" If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them. "
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Opponent
Cracks
Find
" I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard. "
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Work
Craft
Hard
" 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. "
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Questions
Country
Know
" It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people. "
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People
Jealous
Easy
" 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. "
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Film
Run
Play
" I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field. "
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You
Say
" When I was younger, I took everything seriously, and I still do to some degree. "
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Still
Seriously
Everything
" I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new. "
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My Life
Play
Short
" I'm a religious man. I believe in God. "
Doug Baldwin
Religious
God
Believe
" The reason why I play 'Madden' is because in 'Madden,' I can control everything, and in the game of life and the game of football, you can't. It's kind of like an outlet. "
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Control
You
Play
" I've got a chip on my shoulder, and honestly, I've always had it, but I don't think about it in those terms, like I'm trying to be better than this guy or that guy. It just helps keep me focused. "
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Like
Trying
" The NFL cares about one thing, and that's the NFL. That's the bottom line. "
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Bottom
Line
NFL
" I don't know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don't get me wrong - we get paid a lot of money. There's a sense of 'shut up and play,' that this is entertainment for other people. Then, when we go out in public, we're like zoo animals. We're not human beings. "
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Zoo
Slavery
People
" 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. "
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Gone
Opportunity
Team
" I care about what's best for everyone around me. "
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Everyone
About
Around
" The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own. "
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Tragedy
Own
Matters
" 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. "
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Father
Me
" 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. "
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Football
Me
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