I know the history, but we are a different generation.

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.

You can tell when coaches have confidence in you.

It’s great to be able to come in every day and work out, review videos, and practice with guys who all have the same objective in mind.

You have to keep learning, keep doing those things every single day, and you learn more and more no matter if you’re in your second year of your career or in the 18th year of your career, you’re going to be learning.

I try to stick to the same daily routine as much as possible.

Kids in sports – it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

Definitely, as a competitor, you want to get out there and play.”

Champions are forged in the wee hours of the morning when everyone else is still sleeping.” They remain beyond practice to obtain more repetitions with their key receivers so they can locate each other in the midst of 65,000 screaming fans on game day.

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.

I feel like, even if something goes wrong, I have confidence in myself and my team that we’ll fix it.

I want people to know that I’m going to leave every single thing on the field.

You get older, and you want to be a professional athlete; you want to win on the biggest stage.

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.

There’s always plays that Coach Reid just draws up every single week. I always say that they always work. He just gets on the board in his room and just starts drawing plays. The possibilities are endless.

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterback and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses – and then the arm is something else that helps them with that.

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech.

I didn’t do any football stuff when I was a kid… Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That’s all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it.

Good third-down teams are teams that usually have success in this league.

Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy.

You want to be drafted high, but to be drafted high into an organization like the Kansas City Chiefs, it’s like a dream to me.

All I can think about is how I grew up in a locker room where people from every race, every background, and every community came together and became brothers to accomplish a single goal.

When you’re in this league, you have to do something every single day.

They were the better team today; they beat us pretty good. The worst, I think, that I’ve been beaten in a long time.

When people talk about me, they talk about just the arm and that I have a big arm. I want to be able to change that mindset too, ‘He’s a great quarterback who just happens to have a great arm.’

You have to be able to do everything in this league, and I try to get better at every single one of those throws every single day.

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

You have to be secure with the ball. You can’t lose it.

I’m not a Packers fan. I just like football. I do respect those guys. You respect great football. I’m a Cowboys fan, or I was a Cowboys fan. You just respect great football.

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.

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.

You want to be in the first round. That’s the dream. That’s what you see on draft night.

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.

I had a lot of stats in college, and they didn’t count for wins. So whatever it takes to win football games is the goal that I set.

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.

Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game.

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.

You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play.

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.

The quarterbacks that win. those are the quarterbacks that are talked about for being great.

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.

Coach Reid is a great teacher. He understands how people learn, understands how to get people to get the concept of what the play is and why we’re running it.

To be in this moment in this game against that team, to make a play to walk off a game at Arrowhead – I’ll remember this game for the rest of my life.

You’re playing football and enjoying the life you’ve always wanted.

I bet it feels amazing to be the quarterback who says I’m going to Disney World after winning a Super Bowl.

It’s going to be awesome getting to learn from a guy like Alex Smith, who’s had a ton of success in the league.

In the pocket, I usually keep two hands on the ball.

I think, as a quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.

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.

I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn’t the type of guy that put my name out there.

I was a good student and stuff like that.

For me, being a black quarterback—having a black dad and a white mom—it just shows that it doesn’t matter where you come from. I have been blessed to be accepted for who I am my entire life, but that isn’t the case for everyone.

You dream about this stuff when you’re a kid.

Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from. You have to learn and develop from every experience you see.

I’m definitely not for any haunted houses. They’re all scary to me.

I just try to learn from every mistake that I make so that I never make them again.

I aspire to be amazing. I want to leave a lasting impression. But I see how much effort that will require.

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.

All I try to do is learn from every mistake I make so that I don’t do it again.

You must learn from every event, good or bad.

I like being in Kansas City. People are extremely nice, extremely passionate about the Chiefs.

I’m just proud of who I am. And I’ve always had that confidence in myself. The more I mature, I’ve learned that I was blessed to be in the situation that I was in.

I have a lot of guys around me that help make my job easier.

Never change who you are, and be the best you can be.

Until you get there, you never know what to expect.

Any dog can be aggressive; it’s basically the way they’re raised.

When you’re a youngster, you fantasize about things like this.

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.

The biggest thing I’ve done is to lean on people I respect, and I was lucky enough to grow up with a lot of role models around me. I’ve been given this platform, and I want to make sure I can do whatever I can to make the world a better place in whatever way that is.

You can’t have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

You have to take in the hurt; you have to accept it. This hurts; it’s supposed to hurt.

I just try to be the best Patrick Mahomes I can be.

The road to the glory of raising a trophy over your head is paved in the blocks of consistency and repetition.

All you have to do is trust the process and don’t try to do too much, and things will start to happen, and success will come your way.

I have to make those tight-window throws, and trying to make those plays is the reason I have had success.

The bricks of consistency and repetition are laid on the route to the glory of hoisting a trophy over your head.

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.

If you want to win, you have to be efficient.

My dream came true. It’s such an iconic thing. I didn’t even remember tweeting it until it came back out before the Super Bowl.

I tried to dream it, and I tweeted it.

I want to be great.