Colin Kaepernick Quotes

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there and they can rely on in crunch time. I'm going to be the guy that they know will show up every day, every game, every play and show up on a consistently great level.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

My teammates trust me; they know I make the right plays. I'm not a selfish guy.

I play better when guys depend on me.

I want to be the guy the captain can trust.

I've got to be the one at the end of games that people can rely on, that our guys can rely on.

Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

I have to give him and I have to have 100 percent of his confidence…. If I do not have his confidence, someone else should be chief of staff.

I’ll take care of South America. Just leave it to me.

I know my role on this team, and I'm expected to prepare and to perform every week and play well. I relish that opportunity - to be somebody the guys can count on week in and week out, to play really well. That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.

I enjoy being held accountable, I enjoy holding my teammates accountable and being someone that my teammates can depend on.

I think the toughest job in football is always to be the starter, because everybody looks to you for guidance.

Pushing guys to be the best, that's part of the role I've always taken being a quarterback.

My teammates and the coaching team know that they can count on me.

It's easy on teams when you have got superstars. I mean, they're really good. And you give them the ball, and you say, 'Make a play.'

Everybody's watching when you're the quarterback. The other players see how much you want it.

Having trust in your manager is the most important thing for a footballer.

We need to trust our coaches. Unless we trust them we can't get the result.

People have confidence in you. It's easy to have confidence in somebody that's going out there every night and giving the team a chance to win.

I want to be the guy on third down, whenever the coaches need a play, they call my number.

When you're not playing, it is difficult to feel that you are the leader of the team.

A captain has to be able to look a player in the eye before he starts his run-up or goes out to bat.