Top 55 Baker Mayfield Quotes

You’re not always going to have a perfect day. You’re not always going to have the day that you envision.

Football is a violent, competitive game. That’s the way it was always meant to be played. You are supposed to play with an edge. You are actually supposed to impose your will on the other person to win.

I’ve always been a guy to keep positive energy on the sideline.

I learned, for me to play at my best, I need to play with an edge.

For me, being as competitive as I am, the bigger the challenge for me, the better for me.

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.

All the different coaches and styles of play I’ve seen helped me develop, to relate to my teammates.

Anytime you can get the crowd to be a factor, kudos to the crowd.

You’ve got to have the same attitude each day. You’ve got to show up to work.

I am going to be myself. To me, that is going to take care of the rest.

Before the game, getting guys in the right mindset and confident – you play well when you’re confident. People can say ‘cockiness’ or whatever, but there are results when you play with a confidence and you believe in yourself.

Family first, always, no matter what the situation.

Cleveland, as a whole, is a great sports town. People love the Browns here.

I’m always competitive.

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.

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.

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.

I used to have the mindset of worrying about everybody else’s opinions, trying to please everybody, but that’s not going to happen.

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’m ready for any adversity that’s going to hit.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It’s how you handle it.

I’ll do anything it takes to win.

There are a lot of things I would take back, off the field, to be a franchise guy.

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.

You’ve got to play to your players’ talents.

I easily could’ve gone to a place like Florida Atlantic, but my dad pushed me to realize that my dream was to play somewhere big. He was right.

I love this game, and without the competitive nature, I wouldn’t enjoy it.

Height doesn’t matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they’ve proven that it doesn’t matter.

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.

I always have that in the back of my head – the idea that I’ve been spoon-fed because of where I’m from. I think that’s one of the main things that drives me to work harder to show that, in reality, I haven’t been handed anything.

Within football, there is a lot of trash talk, a lot of stuff that’s not been made aware to everybody.

My mom and I used to dance to the Jackson 5 in our living room.

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.

I’ve always been a guy who’s very confident in my own abilities.

My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.

I would never put myself before my mom.

I don’t think I’m over-the-top cocky, I’m just proud of where I came from.

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.

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.

I can make any throw.

I just want the team to win, no matter what the cost is.

Football is hard to have success. It is tough to do your job.

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.

I had to play the cards that I was dealt to get better mentally, physically, and push myself to limits that I didn’t think I was capable of.

It is nice to get reps and to slowly build that timing and chemistry. To be able to do that, you start to get into a rhythm.

Whenever I get a chance to get my reps in, that’s a good challenge for me.

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.

I’m not trying to please everybody. I’m just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.

If you’re not gonna do it right off the field, who’s to say we trust you on the field?

When people doubt me, I want to prove them wrong.

You can’t beat the Cotton Bowl. There’s nothing like that.

I had to overcome a lot of things, but with that, I’ve inspired a lot of people.

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.

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.