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" If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player. "

Colin Kaepernick

Football Player

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

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