Colin Kaepernick Quotes
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Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.
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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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It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
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I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that's leading the team or representing the organization.
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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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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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We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those.
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Its a touchy subject, 'cause I never want to take it there, where it seems like it's all about race. But I feel like that's something that comes along with the territory of being a black quarterback. When you have success - 'Oh, you're a freak athlete.' Not, 'Oh, you're a good quarterback.'
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I'll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan.
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I have great teammates around me who make plays.
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The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the racist text messages that have been passed back and forth between PD members, not only talking about the community, but also talking about colleagues that work in the same department as them.
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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'm not incapable of going through things.
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Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I'm always conscious of the stereotype. I want to change what people think. There's a lot more to it than what you see on the field.
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I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it.
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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'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'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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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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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.
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I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.
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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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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 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.