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" Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's the flashback feeling in a good way. Like I'm watching a rerun, because I've studied this defense and know what comes next. Now, that is a good feeling, when your mind is working fast because you've studied, and you realize, 'I've seen this before.' "

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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. "

Colin Kaepernick

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

Colin Kaepernick

Sports

Too Much

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

" 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.' "

" Once you're on the field, you're playing. You're not worried about anything other than doing your job to help your team. "

" If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best. "

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

" 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've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we were the only black people in that neighborhood, the cops got called, and we had guns drawn on us. Came in the house, without knocking, guns drawn on my teammates and roommates. So I have experienced this. "

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

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

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

" You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find that balance. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You have to take care of the ball to win football games. "

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

" Training, that's my specialty. "

Colin Kaepernick

Specialty

Training

" 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. "

" 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. "

Colin Kaepernick

Black

Just

" 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. "

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

" I refuse to take shortcuts. "

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

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