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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. "

Colin Kaepernick

Hands

Down

Teammates

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" I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone. "

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" It was just something - I didn't agree with what the flag was representing at this time, and you know, if you look at the original picture where people addressed it, I was trying to sit behind the coolers and out of the way, 'cause I didn't want to interrupt anybody else's right to stand and hold attention to the flag. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback. "

" I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about 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 don't play for job security. "

" I'm not incapable of going through things. "

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

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

" 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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Think

Respect

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" I refuse to take shortcuts. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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