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Honestly, I don't believe in luck.
You're always fighting the demons.
I support Kam Chancellor as a person.
I'm a religious man. I believe in God.
Thursday night football should be illegal.
Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.
Good instincts are vital to longevity in the NFL.
I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.
We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.
The difference between a mob and a movement is follow-through.
I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I have a boulder on my shoulder.
I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.
If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.
The NFL cares about one thing, and that's the NFL. That's the bottom line.
I'm not one of those typical receivers who's like a robot in the slot or outside.
As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.
It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.
If you can play football, you can play football. Measurables at the combine don't change that.
I'm still conscious of whether people really accept me, but that insecurity makes me stronger.
I've heard all my life how I'm too short or not big enough to play this game. It's nothing new.
Let's be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn't mean their opinion is an intelligent one.
I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.
I loved playing video games when I was younger, loved playing with Legos - the tech nerd, that was me for sure.
As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.
It's been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community.
Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.
Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.
I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.
The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.
The route may, say, go across the field for 22 yards. I know I have to be there, but how I get there is where they allow me to be creative.
As a human, I feel extremely compelled to use my platform and my influence in whatever way for the benefit and not just for my sole benefit.
We play a very violent sport, and sometimes it leads to a lot of emotion, a lot of testosterone getting built up, and it comes out in various ways.
Anytime you get to go up against guys that have done well in this league, who have dominated in this league, you have got to rise to the challenge.
I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.
I didn't have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn't help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.
If you take a step back and you look at the overall picture, there's a lot of teams in this league that could use a quarterback of Colin Kaepernick's ability.
What separates me is I'm a dog. I use that term very strongly because that's what I am. That's why I have an angry demeanor. It's not a front. It's not a face.
Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.
The reason why I play 'Madden' is because in 'Madden,' I can control everything, and in the game of life and the game of football, you can't. It's kind of like an outlet.
I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.
As cliche as it sounds, I've always told myself, 'Don't worry about the things you can't control. Control the things you can control.' That battle has beat up on me for years.
I've been blessed enough to be on a great team, gone to the divisional round five years in a row or whatever it was. That's special. Not everybody gets an opportunity to do that.
As we've grown as a country, we've allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don't know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people.
I watched a lot of Jerry Rice's film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate him, and he didn't play with the same body language that I wanted to play with.
I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives.
Instincts are learned on the football field through experience. It's vital in sports because things happen so rapidly that you have to rely on your instincts at times to make quick decisions.
I've got a chip on my shoulder, and honestly, I've always had it, but I don't think about it in those terms, like I'm trying to be better than this guy or that guy. It just helps keep me focused.
My father's a police officer, and he's told me numerous times about his training and how they've gone through what they call verbal judo, which is essentially them trying to de-escalate the situation.
Communities have changed. Our society is changing. Sometimes I feel like our law enforcement, the public services, they don't have enough resources to keep up with the changes that we see in our society.
It's not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can't catch the ball. It's that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.