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

Colin Kaepernick

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" All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch. "

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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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" My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations. "

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" I'm not too big on feelings. "

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" I don't think I can be too hard on myself. "

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" I never weighed myself when I was at my lightest because I didn't want to know. "

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" I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way. "

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" The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the racist text messages that have been passed back and forth between PD members, not only talking about the community, but also talking about colleagues that work in the same department as them. "

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

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" I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that. "

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" Mental health, for me, is doing everything I can to help this team win. Sitting around not doing anything isn't something I've been too big on since I was young. "

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

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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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" There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality. "

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" I'm not incapable of going through things. "

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" If you work hard and perform well, it doesn't matter whether you're 20 or 40. People are going to follow, and you can go in there and run the show. "

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" 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. "

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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 trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little bit better. Anything I could do to try to get a little bit better and stay ahead of the competition. "

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" You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center. "

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" 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. "

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" In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film. "

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

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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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" The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different. "

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