Colin Kaepernick Quotes
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I don't look like my high school self anymore. I feel like I look more like an adult now.
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I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.
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I'm not too big on feelings.
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I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.'
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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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Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.
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All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.
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Training, that's my specialty.
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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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I'll never take the easy way out.
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The support I've gotten from my teammates has been great.
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We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for?
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When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in.
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You have to take care of the ball to win football games.
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A lot of them have families to feed, and I think it's a tragic situation where players aren't comfortable speaking what's on their mind or what's right because they're afraid of consequences that come along with it. That's not an ideal environment for anybody.
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You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.
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Unless you're being carted off, you should be on the field.
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If you work hard and perform well, it doesn't matter whether you're 20 or 40. People are going to follow, and you can go in there and run the show.
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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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I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.
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I love America.
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Teammates tell me to bring it down a notch in practice or that their hands are hurting. Randy Moss told me I was the first person to ever dislocate one of his fingers.
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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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I felt the way people talked to me was like, 'It's OK to be No. 2 in the NFL, a backup,' and things like that. That's never been my approach.