Patrick Mahomes

“I'm a little quick - I can run a little bit - but I know I can't make a lot happen. So my thinking always was, 'Why don't you put it in the fast guys' hands and let them make plays.'”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I was a good student and stuff like that.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 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.'”

“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.”

“You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.”

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

“You have to be secure with the ball. You can't lose it.”

“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.”