Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.
PATRICK MAHOMES IIYou can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.
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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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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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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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Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.
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Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.
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You have to be secure with the ball. You can’t lose it.
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Until you get there, you never know what to expect.
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