Patrick Mahomes Quotes

Patrick Mahomes

Profession : Athlete

Birth : September 17, 1995

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patrick Mahomes

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

Patrick Mahomes

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

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

When people talk about me, they talk about just the arm and that I have a big arm. I want to be able to change that mindset to, 'He's a great quarterback who just happens to have a great arm.'

Patrick Mahomes

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.

Patrick Mahomes

Not a lot of people see that when you're growing up. You don't get to see that people really have to work hard to become as good as they are.

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

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

Patrick Mahomes

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

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

You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you.

Patrick Mahomes

I have to make those tight-window throws, and trying to make those plays is the reason I have had success.

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

Patrick Mahomes