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" There aren't enough people who are passionate with what they do. They're content just going through life being mediocre, being average. They don't want to thrive. They don't want to strive for greater. They're happy being where they are. "

Doug Baldwin

Thrive

Enough

People

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" As cliche as it sounds, I've always told myself, 'Don't worry about the things you can't control. Control the things you can control.' That battle has beat up on me for years. "

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" As a human, I feel extremely compelled to use my platform and my influence in whatever way for the benefit and not just for my sole benefit. "

" Good instincts are vital to longevity in the NFL. "

" The reason why I play 'Madden' is because in 'Madden,' I can control everything, and in the game of life and the game of football, you can't. It's kind of like an outlet. "

" I'm just trying to be the best Doug Baldwin I can be. "

" I support Kam Chancellor as a person. "

" If you can play football, you can play football. Measurables at the combine don't change that. "

" I care about what's best for everyone around me. "

" If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them. "

" As we've grown as a country, we've allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don't know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people. "

" I think you have to have a bit of an anger-management issue, to be honest with you. Usually, slot guys are a lot smaller and quicker, but at the same time, you have to go in there and block linebackers and safeties, and so you have to be aggressive. "

" I'm a religious man. I believe in God. "

" I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know. "

" It's been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community. "

" It's not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can't catch the ball. It's that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot. "

" It's not going to matter, but there's a part of me, a human part of me, that wants to be 60 years old, watching a Seahawks game, and they're talking about the days back when I was playing. I want to be able to feel that. I want to know what that feels like. "

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Know

Back

" Let's be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn't mean their opinion is an intelligent one. "

" I've been blessed enough to be on a great team, gone to the divisional round five years in a row or whatever it was. That's special. Not everybody gets an opportunity to do that. "

" As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable. "

" Thursday night football should be illegal. "

" The route may, say, go across the field for 22 yards. I know I have to be there, but how I get there is where they allow me to be creative. "

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Field

Creative

" You're always fighting the demons. "

" We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football. "

" If you want to get anything done, you have to start somewhere. "

" Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations. "

" I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new. "

" I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives. "