Colin Kaepernick Quotes
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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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I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.
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If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.
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I'm not too big on feelings.
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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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Training, that's my specialty.
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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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The support I've gotten from my teammates has been great.
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You have to take care of the ball to win football games.
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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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Mental health, for me, is doing everything I can to help this team win. Sitting around not doing anything isn't something I've been too big on since I was young.
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People don't realize what's really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change. That's something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.
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Unless you're being carted off, you should be on the field.
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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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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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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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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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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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I'll never take the easy way out.
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Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.
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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 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.
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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.