Quotes by Colin Kaepernick - Page 3

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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Nobody Cares
Occupation
Jewish
Cares
Member
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I can't look in the mirror and see people dying on the street that should have the same opportunities that I've had. And say 'You know what? I can live with myself.' Because I can't if I just watch.
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Opportunity
Mirrors
Should Have
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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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Faster
Runners
Olympic
Trained
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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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Organization
Quarterback
Representing
Tattoos
Franchise
Leading
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Tape
Life Dreams Me
All My Life
Forcing
Plays
Relive
Visions
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Being an NFL quarterback there's a lot of advantages that come with it. There are a lot of doors that open when you're a quarterback but at the same time there's a lot of scrutiny. There are a lot of things you can't do as well.
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Doors
Nfl
Scrutiny
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Change
Able
Agitate
Comfortable
Country
Order
People
Most
Very
Change People Country
You
Change People Something
Set
Times
Change Country People
Improve
Necessary
Something
Ways
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My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Carried
Carrying
Certain Way
Situations
Talked
Treating
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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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Presidential
Standing
Candidate
Deleted
Emails
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To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Athlete
Bittersweet
Compliment
Freak
Time Me Game
Time Game Me
Diminishes
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Mindset
Preparing
Quarterback
Everyone Else
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I've seen videos, I've seen circumstances where men and women that have been in the military have come back and been treated unjustly by the country they have fought for, and have been murdered by the country they fought for, on our land. That's not right.
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Men
Country
Military
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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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Great Respect
Liberty
Men And Women
For The People
Fought
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Comfortable
Environment
Situation
Tragic
Consequences
Afraid
Anybody
Feed
Families
Ideal
Speaking
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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.'
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Community
Okay
African
Carry
Hold
Himself
Reflects
Representative
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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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Tattoo
Shop
Picking
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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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Coverage
Nevada
Time Person Know
Checking
Snapped
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I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for the USA. 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. That's not happening.
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Men
Country
Fighting
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I think that's something that's hard for this country to address, is what the real issues are and coming to the point where we can admit that these are issues. Once we admit that, we can deal with it, we can fix them, and we can make this country and these communities a better place.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Better Place
Country
Address
Admit
Fix
Coming
Communities
Deal
Point
Real Issues
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Change
Freedom
Country
Liberty
Needs
People
Unjust
Freedom Justice People
Things
Lot
Accountable
Being
Held
Realize
Something
Stands
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Colleagues
Department
Messages
Forth
Passed
Text
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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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Athlete
Freak
Quarterback
Territory
Touchy
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Moving Out
Neighborhood
Teammates
Guns
Cops
Drawn
Experienced
Roommates
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Equal
Given
Huge
Issues
People
Police
Treated
Need
About
Lot
Life Police People
Thing
Those
Fix
Brought
Huge Thing
Opportunities
Talked
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Agree
Attention
Representing
Picture
Time Look People
Original
Cause
Flag
Hold
Interrupt
Just Something
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You have Hillary Clinton who has called black teens or black kids super predators, you have Donald Trump who's openly racist. We have a presidential candidate who has 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.
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Kids
Black
Presidential
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I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Freedom Of Speech
Harm
Men And Women
Sacrifice
Speech
Spun
Freedom Men Women
Seat
Context
Selves
Utmost
Utmost Respect
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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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Adopted
Brown
Color
Wish
Yeah
Time Family Mom
Skin
Oh
Family Time Mom
Yours
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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.
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Heard
People
Position
Seeing
Things Happen
Voice
Things
Feel
Like
Because
Talk
Change People Feel
Change People Way
Stand
Affect
Being
Any
Down
Happen
Put
Platform
Where
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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.'
Colin Kaepernick / Football Player
Defense
Flashback
Good Feeling
Studied
Good Mind Your
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You have people that practice law and are lawyers and go to school for eight years, but you can become a cop in six months and don't have to have the same amount of training as a cosmetologist. That's insane. Someone that's holding a curling iron has more education and more training than people that have a gun and are going out on the street to protect us.
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Eight
Gun
School
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