65 Patrick Mahomes Quotes from American Football Quarterback

Patrick Mahomes a talented American football quarterback plays for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs.

Mahomes has won two Super Bowls and received two NFL MVP awards.

Raised by his mother after his parents separated, Mahomes was influenced by his father a professional baseball pitcher.

Mahomes excelled in football basketball and baseball in high school eventually choosing to play football at Texas Tech University.

He had a remarkable college football career and was selected by the Chiefs in the 2017 NFL draft.

Mahomes has been recognized for his unique playing style social justice advocacy and charitable work.

He is married to his high-school sweetheart Brittany Matthews.

Let’s jump straight into the best quotes by Patrick Mahomes.

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Best Patrick Mahomes Quotes

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

You want to be in the first round. That’s the dream. That’s what you see on draft night. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

I just try to be the best Patrick Mahomes I can be. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

If you want to win, you have to be efficient. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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

You just have got to trust in the process and not try to do too much and things will start happening and having success your way. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

You see Tom Brady, you see Alex Smith, and you see all those guys in the pocket and how quick they are with their footwork and how they get the ball out fast. I have to get like that. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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

I want people to know that I’m going to leave every single thing on the field. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Playing the scout-team quarterback in practice really helped develop my game. ~ 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 have to make those tight-window throws, and trying to make those plays is the reason I have had success. ~ 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.

Top Patrick Mahomes Quotes

Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn’t the fastest guy. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Never change who you are, and be the best you can be. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Kids in sports – it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn. ~ 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’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. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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

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

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.

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. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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

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. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Popular Patrick Mahomes Quotes

You can’t have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

I didn’t do any football stuff when I was a kid… Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That’s all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

For me, it’s always fun. You’re playing football and living out your dream. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

There’s so much difference having arm ability. You have to be able to throw it hard. You have to be able to throw it with touch. You have to be able to do everything in this league, and I try to get better at every single one of those throws every single day. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

I want to be great. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

You have to be secure with the ball. You can’t lose it. ~ 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. ~ Patrick Mahomes

The road to glory of raising a trophy over your head is paved in the blocks of consistency and repetition. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Follow your dreams and not just do what everyone thinks you should do, but follow your dreams. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

When you’re in this league, you have to do something every single day. You have off days, but those off days are usually watching film. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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. ~ 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.

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.’ ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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

Famous Patrick Mahomes Quotes

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.

I love being able to come in every single day and work out and watch film and practice with guys who are all striving for the same goal. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

The quarterbacks that win… those are the quarterbacks that are talked about for being great. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

I was a good student and stuff like that. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

When I was young I used to eat ketchup sandwiches – just bread and ketchup. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Inspiring Patrick Mahomes Quotes

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 you go into a game, and there’s something that was drawn up the way it was supposed to be drawn up, and you missed the throw or the catch, as a receiver, it’s something where you feel bad about that. You can always regret just missing it, but as a football player, you have to move on to the next play. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

I have a lot of guys around me that help make my job easier. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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

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. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Inspirational Patrick Mahomes Quotes

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. ~ 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.

The best thing about it is you’re showing kids that no matter where you grow up, what race you are, that you can achieve your dream. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Any dog can be aggressive; it’s basically the way they’re raised. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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

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, an astute football coach.~- Patrick Mahomes

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

You can tell when coaches have a confidence in you. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterback and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses – and then the arm is something else that helps them with that. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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. ~ Patrick Mahomes.

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So these were the 65 top Patrick Mahomes quotes.

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Short Biography of Patrick Mahomes

Patrick Mahomes, a top NFL quarterback, has won multiple Super Bowls and MVP titles with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Growing up in Tyler, Texas, after his parents’ separation, he was influenced by his pro baseball dad and other athletes.

Full Name	Patrick Lavon Mahomes II
Born	September 17, 1995, Tyler, Texas, United States
Spouse	Brittany Mahomes (m. 2022)
Parents	Pat Mahomes, Randi Martin
Current team	Kansas City Chiefs (#15 / Quarterback)
Dates joined	2017 (Kansas City Chiefs), 2014 (Texas Tech Red Raiders football)
School	Texas Tech University
Height	1.88 m
Weight	225 lb (102 kg)

Excelling in multiple sports in high school, Mahomes chose football over a potential baseball career, shining at Texas Tech before joining the Chiefs.

His impressive NFL journey includes record-breaking seasons and a massive contract.

Off the field, Mahomes is active in social justice and owns stakes in sports teams.

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Quick Facts about Patrick Mahomes

• Patrick Mahomes is heading back to the Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs.
• He won Super Bowl MVP in both 2020 and 2023.
• Mahomes is known for his love of ketchup, sneaker collection, and being good at beer pong.
• He’s been breaking records in the NFL since being drafted in 2017, including being one of two players to achieve 5,000 passing yards and 50 touchdowns in a single season.
• Before the NFL, Mahomes was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the MLB draft but chose football instead.
• His dad, Pat Mahomes Sr., was an MLB pitcher, influencing Mahomes’ baseball skills.
• As a child, Mahomes was a huge fan of MLB player Alex Rodriguez.
• During his rookie season, he was robbed at gunpoint but emerged unscathed.
• In 2020, Mahomes signed a record $503 million contract with the NFL, the largest in American sports history.
• He also became a part-owner of the Kansas City Royals that same year.
• Mahomes’ brother, Jackson, is a social media star with over a million followers on TikTok.
• Mahomes married his high school sweetheart, Brittany Matthews, and they have two children, Sterling Skye and Bronze, plus two dogs named Silver and Steel.
• He was the first Kansas City Chiefs player to be featured on the cover of “Madden.”
• Mahomes founded the 15 and the Mahomies Foundation in 2019 to support children’s health and education.
• He has his own cereal, Mahomes Magic Crunch, which sold over 300,000 boxes, with proceeds benefiting his foundation.

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