I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.
PATRICK MAHOMES III’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.
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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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Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.
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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.
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Kids in sports – it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.
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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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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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I was a good student and stuff like that.
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No one really sees pro athletes behind the scenes. They don’t know how hard they work. They don’t see how you work on the basics. They couldn’t possibly know. You wouldn’t think that someone who hits like Alex Rodriguez needs to use a tee every day. But that’s how he stayed on top of it.
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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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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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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 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 just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.
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Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
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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.
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