Quotes from Patrick Mahomes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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