Quotes from Patrick Mahomes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was a good student and stuff like that.

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.

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

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

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.