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.
PATRICK MAHOMES IIDefinitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
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I want people to know that I’m going to leave every single thing on the field.
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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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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.
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I 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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Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.
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I was a good student and stuff like that.
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Good third-down teams are teams that usually have success in this league. –
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Not a lot of people see that when you’re growing up. You don’t get to see that people really have to work hard to become as good as they are.
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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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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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When I was young I used to eat ketchup sandwiches – just bread and ketchup.
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Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.
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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 always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.
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When I scramble and do those things, I try to look downfield, look for the playmakers, put it in their hands, and let them make all the big plays happen.
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