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" 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
Me
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film. "
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" I think being shy or a little bit more mild-mannered is more how you treat people and how you go about your business, not necessarily how you dress or things of that nature. "
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" 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. "
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" You have to train hard and be strong while staying flexible and limber, so I'm trying to find that balance. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" Once you're on the field, you're playing. You're not worried about anything other than doing your job to help your team. "
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Help
Doing
" I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. "
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" I have great respect for people's right to believe what they want to believe. And I don't think anybody should be prosecuted or judged based on what their beliefs are. "
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" People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody. "
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" People are terrified of them to the point where Trump wants to ban all Muslims from coming here, which is ridiculous. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not incapable of going through things. "
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" The support I've gotten from my teammates has been great. "
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" 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. "
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" To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that. "
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" When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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