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" Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When you step on that field, you're a member, in my case, the 49ers. That's your job, your occupation. "

Colin Kaepernick

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Christian

Black

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Think

" I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. "

" I'm not too big on feelings. "

" 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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Parents

Mom

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

" Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright. "

Colin Kaepernick

Blessed

God

" Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country. "

" 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. "

" Whatever the offense dictates to allow me doing what I or this offense needs to do to win games, I'm going to do it. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Colin Kaepernick

Saying

Tattoos

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

" 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. "

Colin Kaepernick

Think

Respect

" To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this. "

Colin Kaepernick

Success

Going

" Unless you're being carted off, you should be on the field. "

" I'm here to play football. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm going out to play, and to play to win. "

" I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.' "

Colin Kaepernick

Community

Dress

" I don't look like my high school self anymore. I feel like I look more like an adult now. "

" 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? "

" I don't play for job security. "

" I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it. "

" 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 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. "

Colin Kaepernick

Rock

Where