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“I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.”
“When you take shots downfield, you want to be good at them.”
“When I was young, I just tried to please everybody.”
“I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety - expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.”
“When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.”
“That's a special time, to get drafted.”
“It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long.”
“The quarterback position gets a lot of attention.”
“In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders' eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.”
“When you're a quarterback, and you're dropping back, I can't watch what the receivers are doing.”
“Losing is not fun.”
“To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.”
“I think that's the great thing about the NFL. You're out there, and there are very few perennials. It's a battle every single year. You can go first to worst, worst to first.”
“I think you have to enjoy the wins. If you're not enjoying the process, there's a problem. You're not doing it for all the right reasons.”
“You're never trying to have three-and-outs; I don't care what offense you're playing.”
“When I was young, you get into the point where you want to throw everything hard. And it looks good, it feels good... You get to the point, though, where it's not realistic.”
“You only have one brain. There's no replacement surgery for that.”
“If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.”
“In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too talented.”
“I love Kansas City. I love the coaching staff, the players.”