I’m a little quick – I can run a little bit – but I know I can’t make a lot happen. So my thinking always was, ‘Why don’t you put it in the fast guys’ hands and let them make plays.
PATRICK MAHOMES III was that little kid: I was the one that was looking up to athletes and getting to see them and getting to be a part of it, and I remember those experiences.
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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.
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I have a lot of guys around me that help make my job easier.
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I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.
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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.
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I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.
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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.
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You can have the big arm, and that’s good, and it helps out in the games, but it doesn’t help you necessarily win games.
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You have to be secure with the ball. You can’t lose it.
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They had a good game plan and they came out fast. We started slow, but we picked it up. You just have got to trust in the process and not try to do too much and things will start happening and having success your way.
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You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.
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Good third-down teams are teams that usually have success in this league. –
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When you’re in this league, you have to do something every single day. You have off days, but those off days are usually watching film.
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Coming from college, where they tell you exactly what you have to do, and they tell you have to be at this at this time, you kind of get punishment for that. Now you’re in the NFL, and you have to do it on your own.
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I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we’ll fix it.
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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.
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