Quotes from Colin Kaepernick

You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

Feelings aren't going to help me win a game.

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.

Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright.

I haven't seen a quarterback play a perfect game yet.

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.

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.

There are a lot of details to running that I never even thought about. I just went out and ran. I think I can be faster. I think I can be quicker.

Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.

When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.

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.

I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to run,' or, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to work out a certain way.'

Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.

I was a Packers fan growing up, and just to see the way he played the game and how excited he was about it all the time, he's my favorite.

In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.

I refuse to take shortcuts.

When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in.

Once you're on the field, you're playing. You're not worried about anything other than doing your job to help your team.

To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.

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.'

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.

I'm not incapable of going through things.

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.'

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. This isn't for look. This isn't for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don't have the voice.