Baker Mayfield
It doesn't matter what cards you're dealt. It's what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.Collection: Positive
When you can have a relationship that's like that to where everything is out in the open, you are up front, and there is open communication, it makes for a great relationship.Collection: Communication
Family first, always, no matter what the situation.
When people doubt me, I want to prove them wrong.
You don't build a great castle just all at once.
Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.
I've set up my goals, and I go after them, and if I do that each day, the rest will take care of itself.
Whenever I get a chance to get my reps in, that's a good challenge for me.
I was the undersized underdog who people never gave a chance. From that, the motivation to prove people wrong just grew and grew... Looking back now, I'm glad I didn't hit puberty until later.
You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. I was born and raised in Austin. They didn't recruit me. I grew up 15 miles from their campus. I can't stand them.
For me, being as competitive as I am, the bigger the challenge for me, the better for me.
Cleveland, as a whole, is a great sports town. People love the Browns here.
Always been brutally honest. Some people don't like that because it's rare nowadays.
You've got to have the same attitude each day. You've got to show up to work.
I have to command the offense. I have to command the team. I have to bring a spark and give us a chance to win.
I love this game, and without the competitive nature, I wouldn't enjoy it.
I'm confident I can show exactly what I'm about, how much I care about football, and how I'd do anything to win.
Teams ask me about my character, but until you sit down and talk to me directly, you might have image that's portrayed in stories or headlines. But I love the game, I'm up front and honest, I know exactly what I'm about, and that's the most important thing.
Not everybody responds to yelling at 'em or jumping all over 'em. Sometimes you need to put your arm around somebody and encourage them.
All the different coaches and styles of play I've seen helped me develop, to relate to my teammates.
Always have self-confidence because that can take you a long way.
Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.
I've learned I can't change every opinion or have everyone's approval. If I get caught up in that, I'm worried about the wrong things.
Whatever opportunity I get, to make sure I get better, I need to take advantage of that.
You can focus on the few things that give people a negative image about me, or you can see the other things I've done, or talk to people in my inner circle who know more about who I really am.
I'm not ashamed to speak my mind. What you see is what you get. You're not going to get a two-faced person who is going to say one thing and mean another.
There are spots that I have to hit. Throws I can't miss.
I am a Cleveland Brown. I am proud and happy about that.
If you can win ballgames, you can win ballgames.
I'm ready for any adversity that's going to hit.
You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.
Height doesn't matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they've proven that it doesn't matter.
I want to be drafted to a team that knows exactly what they're getting.
That's the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody's so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game - knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.
The best thing - I say it all the time - what happened at Oklahoma was sitting for a year after I transferred. To sit there and be able to focus on the physical parts of my body. You know, develop, and then the mental side of the game, learning.
Anytime you get a better competition level, it's always better for you because you want to get the best out of yourself, and you want to compete against the best.
Anytime I get the chance to play ball, I get excited.
Without pressure, I don't think this would be very much fun, without all the people watching and finding joy in this game.
Having been through some adversity, starting from different points and having to work through the depth chart on many occasions, it's definitely helped my story.
It's important to have a say in your off-the-field brand and what you're doing, your sponsorships, what you want to be represented by, and the image you want to have.
If I came in with the mindset of just being happy that I got drafted and just to settle for a backup job, that wouldn't be myself.
I don't think I'd hold back if I ever had a conversation with anybody that truly passed up on me.
I was confident in my ability. It's why I decided to walk on to a bigger school, in the Big 12: because I was confident in myself.
TCU - they told me they were going to offer me a scholarship and kind of drug it out. I told other schools I wasn't interested because I thought I was going to be there. They disappointed me and kind of hung me out to dry right before signing day.
I say it all the time: Texas high school football. It's no joke. It's a big deal. And when you get good coaches like I had at Lake Travis, and then you play other good programs, it develops you very quickly, and it gets you going.
Everything along the way has made me the competitor I am.
I'm always competitive.
Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There's no doubt about that.
I'll do anything it takes to win.
I love being around my teammates, and I love leading and having responsibility.