It doesn't matter what cards you're dealt. It's what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.
Baker Mayfield
Family first, always, no matter what the situation.
Not everybody responds to yelling at 'em or jumping all over 'em. Sometimes you need to put your arm around somebody and encourage them.
Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.
I was the undersized underdog who people never gave a chance. From that, the motivation to prove people wrong just grew and grew... Looking back now, I'm glad I didn't hit puberty until later.
I can listen to all the people patting me on the back, or I can listen to the people saying I need to get better. I know I need to get better, or else there would be nobody saying that.
You don't build a great castle just all at once.
I've learned I can't change every opinion or have everyone's approval. If I get caught up in that, I'm worried about the wrong things.
When people doubt me, I want to prove them wrong.
Always have self-confidence because that can take you a long way.
You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. I was born and raised in Austin. They didn't recruit me. I grew up 15 miles from their campus. I can't stand them.
I always have that in the back of my head - the idea that I've been spoon-fed because of where I'm from. I think that's one of the main things that drives me to work harder to show that, in reality, I haven't been handed anything.
You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.
I set the bar high, and I'll do anything, whatever it takes to win. I care more about this game than most people ever will. When you mix a lot of those things with a winning mentality, it's a good thing to have as a franchise quarterback.
I've set up my goals, and I go after them, and if I do that each day, the rest will take care of itself.
There are a lot of things I would take back, off the field, to be a franchise guy.
Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There's no doubt about that.
There's always instances where you want those throws back, but the worst part about it is that I can't redo it.
I'm not ashamed to speak my mind. What you see is what you get. You're not going to get a two-faced person who is going to say one thing and mean another.
I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn't think I was capable of.
There are spots that I have to hit. Throws I can't miss.
Before the game, getting guys in the right mindset and confident - you play well when you're confident. People can say 'cockiness' or whatever, but there are results when you play with a confidence and you believe in yourself.
People will have their guesses and opinions on my character, but anyone that's actually sat down and talked to me knows that I don't have any character issues, any off-the-field issues.
It's important to have a say in your off-the-field brand and what you're doing, your sponsorships, what you want to be represented by, and the image you want to have.
Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.
I've always been a guy to keep positive energy on the sideline.
Cleveland, as a whole, is a great sports town. People love the Browns here.
Under pressure is something I thrive on.
I love this game, and without the competitive nature, I wouldn't enjoy it.
You can't beat the Cotton Bowl. There's nothing like that.
If I were on another team or program, I'd hate me, too.
Always been brutally honest. Some people don't like that because it's rare nowadays.
I easily could've gone to a place like Florida Atlantic, but my dad pushed me to realize that my dream was to play somewhere big. He was right.
If I came in with the mindset of just being happy that I got drafted and just to settle for a backup job, that wouldn't be myself.
Height doesn't matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they've proven that it doesn't matter.
I was confident in my ability. It's why I decided to walk on to a bigger school, in the Big 12: because I was confident in myself.
Football is a violent, competitive game. That's the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.
You can focus on the few things that give people a negative image about me, or you can see the other things I've done, or talk to people in my inner circle who know more about who I really am.
I am a Cleveland Brown. I am proud and happy about that.
I used to have the mindset of worrying about everybody else's opinions, trying to please everybody, but that's not going to happen.
Everything along the way has made me the competitor I am.
If you can win ballgames, you can win ballgames.
If you can grab a ball and throw it, you can grab a ball and throw it. I don't care how tall you are, either. I'm not gonna see over a 6-foot-7 left tackle. You've gotta find lanes; you've gotta know where your guys are. It's not about the height: if you can win ball games, you can win 'em.
I say it all the time: Texas high school football. It's no joke. It's a big deal. And when you get good coaches like I had at Lake Travis, and then you play other good programs, it develops you very quickly, and it gets you going.
I'm ready for any adversity that's going to hit.
For me, being as competitive as I am, the bigger the challenge for me, the better for me.
I want to be drafted to a team that knows exactly what they're getting.
That's the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody's so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game - knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.
The best thing - I say it all the time - what happened at Oklahoma was sitting for a year after I transferred. To sit there and be able to focus on the physical parts of my body. You know, develop, and then the mental side of the game, learning.
Whatever opportunity I get, to make sure I get better, I need to take advantage of that.
