Colin Kaepernick Quotes
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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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I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.
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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 don't think I can be too hard on myself.
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People can talk all they want; that doesn't affect how I go about my business.
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The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.
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If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.
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I refuse to take shortcuts.
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As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.
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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 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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You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.
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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.
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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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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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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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I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.
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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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What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry about.
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I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at.
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There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
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I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.
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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'm here to play football.