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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.

Patrick Mahomes II

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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Achievement Best Children Dream Grow Up
I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Improvement Myself Play Sports Thinking
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Myself Sports Worth
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Athlete Children Experience Myself Remember See
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Achievement Myself Oneself Sports Wind
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Kind Myself Thinking
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Game Goodness Help Necessary Sports Win Yourself
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 II

Hands Myself Play Quick Thinking Worth
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Control Kind Punishment Yourself
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 II

Myself Play Sports Talent
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Goal Improvement Quick See Yourself
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Development Different Expectation Experience Learning Myself See Yourself
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 II

Big Challenge Play Sports
Until you get there, you never know what to expect.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Expectation Yourself
I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Learning Mistake Myself
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Improvement Myself See Sports
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.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Dream Expectation Play Sports Start Yourself
Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Bad Experience Goodness Learning Philosophy Yourself
Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Development Game Play Practice Team
Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Play Sports Yourself
I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Learning Mistake Myself Try
You want to be in the first round. That’s the dream. That’s what you see on draft night.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Dream Night See Yourself
When I was young I used to eat ketchup sandwiches – just bread and ketchup.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Food Myself Young
Confidence Tell Coaches The quarterbacks that win. Those are the quarterbacks that are talked about for being great.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Confidence Greatness Sports Talk Win
You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Confidence Sports Yourself
I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we’ll fix it.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Feeling Fix Myself Team Wrong
Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.
PATRICK MAHOMES II

Career Fast Myself Play Sports

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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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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