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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. "

Colin Kaepernick

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

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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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" The support I've gotten from my teammates has been great. "

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" I refuse to take shortcuts. "

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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. "

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

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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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" I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I love America. "

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" All my tattoos, they've been thought out, thought over, been a work in progress for at least a year before I've got them. So I'm not walking into a tattoo shop, picking tattoos off a wall. It's something that means something to me. It's something that I believe in. "

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" To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me. "

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" You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those. "

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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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" I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality. "

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

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" I have great respect for the religion. I know a lot of people that are Muslim and are phenomenal people. "

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" Jim Tomsula is going to be great coach for us. Players' coach. Always around the guys. Someone that's willing to listen to what the players say and has their intake. "

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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. "

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

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