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.
PATRICK MAHOMES IIYou 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.
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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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The furthest I have even thrown the ball was 85 yards. But I had a little wind at my back, so I don’t claim that one.
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You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.
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You want to be in the first round. That’s the dream. That’s what you see on draft night.
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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 want people to know that I’m going to leave every single thing on the field.
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I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.
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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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I was a good student and stuff 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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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 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.
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I’ve been a fan of ketchup for as long as I can remember, and the thick, rich flavor of Hunt’s ketchup delivers every time.
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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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