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.

Patrick Mahomes

Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.

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.

Patrick Mahomes

Work You Would

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

Patrick Mahomes

Wrong Thing Thin

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

Patrick Mahomes

Thanksgiving Good You

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

Patrick Mahomes

Very Us Try

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

Time Art You

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

Experience Art Up

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

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Way T Raised

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

Work You Wit

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.

Patrick Mahomes

Time Very Up

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

Art Your You

I was a good student and stuff like that.

Patrick Mahomes

Good T Stuff

I want to be great.

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Great Want T

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

Patrick Mahomes

T People Passionate

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.

Patrick Mahomes

Time Love Art

It's pretty cool just to see the support we have. It's unmatched, Kansas City and the Chiefs Kingdom, the support they have for us. For me to just kind of be in the community and see those people is always a good thing.

Patrick Mahomes

Good Cool Ways

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.

Patrick Mahomes

You Want Ted

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

Patrick Mahomes

Car Uses Use

I actually watched Tom Brady a good amount in college. My coach in college was Kliff Kingsbury, and he actually was a backup for Brady at one point, and so he showed me things that he liked with Tom and his pocket movements and stuff he did within the pocket that I've tried to put in my game a little bit.

Patrick Mahomes

Men Good Within

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

Tin Throw Think

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterbacks 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.

Patrick Mahomes

For me, it's always fun. You're playing football and living out your dream.

Patrick Mahomes

There's so much difference having arm ability. You have to be able to throw it hard. You have to be able to throw it with touch. 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.

Patrick Mahomes

I love this game.

Patrick Mahomes

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

Nick Foles, if he wasn't preparing like he was the starter, he wouldn't have been able to become a Super Bowl MVP.

Patrick Mahomes

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

Patrick Mahomes

When you play the Oakland Raiders when you're the Kansas City Chiefs, you know they're going to come out with that mentality that they're going to win. They're going to come out fighting. It's a rivalry game.

Patrick Mahomes

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

Patrick Mahomes

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

Patrick Mahomes

The team aspect of football and just playing quarterback, having the ball in your hands, having to make the plays, that was definitely something I loved.

Patrick Mahomes

I try to just focus in on being in the same routine every single day.

Patrick Mahomes

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

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

Patrick Mahomes

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

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

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

Patrick Mahomes

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.

Patrick Mahomes

I love being able to come in every single day and work out and watch film and practice with guys who are all striving for the same goal.

Patrick Mahomes

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

Patrick Mahomes

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

Patrick Mahomes

You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.

Patrick Mahomes

I'm close to Coach Kingsbury. He really helped my game and helped me as a person a lot. He's a genuine good person and, at the same time, a very smart football coach.

Patrick Mahomes

I got to talk with some of the great offensive minds in football. Bruce Arians, Byron Leftwich, Andy Reid, Ben McAdoo, Bill O'Brien, I met all those guys and tried to take something away from each of them. Hue Jackson, people that are known for developing quarterbacks, I got exposed to a lot of stuff I hadn't seen before.

Patrick Mahomes

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.

Patrick Mahomes

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

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.

Patrick Mahomes

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

Patrick Mahomes

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.

Patrick Mahomes

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