Quotes from Doug Baldwin

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.

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.

Good instincts are vital to longevity in the NFL.

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 NFL cares about one thing, and that's the NFL. That's the bottom line.

I support Kam Chancellor as a person.

I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I have a boulder on my shoulder.

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.

Here in Washington State, I've supported efforts to provide our law enforcement with the proper training and resources required to meet their changing and demanding needs of their job. In doing so, I feel that the community and the law enforcement relationship will gratefully benefit from a renewed sense of responsibility and accountability.

Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

I play football because I love the game and I put everything into it.

If you can play football, you can play football. Measurables at the combine don't change that.

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.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.

We have to enforce training that is more emphasized on de-escalation tactics and crisis management control. Once we do that, then we have to put measures in place to reward the officers who are the good officers, which is the majority of them. Then we have to hold accountable the officers that are not abiding by the policies and those laws.

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 take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

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.

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.

You're always fighting the demons.

It's like, I go through life, and all these relationship that I have, they're more like acquaintances than they are true relationships. It's not fulfilling. I don't know. It's a very cold feeling at times, but it's what I'm comfortable with.

Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.

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.