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" I'm going out to play, and to play to win. "
Colin Kaepernick
Play
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" I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to run,' or, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to work out a certain way.' "
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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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" 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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" People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business. "
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" I love America. "
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" I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be. "
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" To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them. "
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" If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best. "
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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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" You have to take care of the ball to win football games. "
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" People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all. "
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" I'm not incapable of going through things. "
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" Teammates tell me to bring it down a notch in practice or that their hands are hurting. Randy Moss told me I was the first person to ever dislocate one of his fingers. "
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" I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are. "
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" When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to and says, 'If we need a play to be made, let's go to him.' "
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" I'm here to play football. "
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" Training, that's my specialty. "
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" I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues are and coming to the point where we can admit that these are issues. Once we admit that, we can deal with it, we can fix them, and we can make this country and these communities a better place. "
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" I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do. "
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" We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for? "
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" I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. "
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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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" Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music. "
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" It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset. "
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" The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there. "
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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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" Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake. "
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" I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it. "
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