“I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we’ll fix it.”

You dream of your first NFL start when you’re a little kid, playing football in the backyard, but until you get there, you never know what to expect.

I didn’t start playing football a lot until I was in high school. I played it in seventh and eighth grade, but I didn’t play Pop Warner or anything.

I was a good student and stuff like that.

Kids in sports – it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

Until you get there, you never know what to expect.

East Texas isn’t known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn’t the type of guy that put my name out there.

It’s a challenge for all quarterbacks, though: You want to make the big play; you want to throw a touchdown every single play. But at the same time, you have to know that it’s a process.

Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.

Good third-down teams are teams that usually have success in this league. –

It’s not like I mean to throw no-look passes. I think it kind of happens out of instinct. As I do it, I’m like, ‘Dang, I didn’t even mean to do that.

You see Tom Brady, you see Alex Smith, and you see all those guys in the pocket and how quick they are with their footwork and how they get the ball out fast. I have to get like that.

I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.

The best thing about it is you’re showing kids that no matter where you grow up, what race you are, that you can achieve your dream.

I have a lot of guys around me that help make my job easier.

I just try to be the best Patrick Mahomes I can be.

You have to learn and develop from every experience you see on the field. I might see an unscouted blitz. I might see different coverages than I’m expecting. So I need to process and make those adjustments as I go.

Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

The darkness feels like home. And the truth is, I’m tired.  I can’t pretend like there’s light anymore.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

I never felt I had questions or needed answers or had a part of me that was missing.

Questions are like gifts – it’s the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.

I’m feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover.