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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. "

Colin Kaepernick

Great

Listen

Someone

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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. "

" I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped. "

Colin Kaepernick

Want

Think

" 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. "

" I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that's leading the team or representing the organization. "

" I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. "

" 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. "

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

" Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I'm always conscious of the stereotype. I want to change what people think. There's a lot more to it than what you see on the field. "

" There are a lot of details to running that I never even thought about. I just went out and ran. I think I can be faster. I think I can be quicker. "

" 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.' "

Colin Kaepernick

Parents

Mom

" At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is. "

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

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

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

" It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset. "

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

" To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that. "

Colin Kaepernick

Anything

Competing

" I'm here to play football. "

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

" Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Colin Kaepernick

Sports

Too Much

" I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field. "

" 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. "

" The support I've gotten from my teammates has been great. "