Baker Mayfield Quotes

My dad is a high school football coach in Texas so I've been around this game for a long time.

I think the coaching and the emphasis being put on different aspects of the game is what makes Texas high school football the best out there.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

I'm a big fan of Coach Dorrell. I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

I hung out in the Baltimore area a lot. My biggest memory was playing football against Morgan. That was, like, 'Forget about it,' that was a really big thing. They used to kick our butts all the time.

Canada's known as a hockey country and now we've proven that we can also play football as well.

When I'm not training or playing, I'm watching football or watching something football-related on my phone, or about our next rival.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.

If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.

I started out wanting to coach football.

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.

All my life, I've been right next to a football field. I never knew nothing else.

As we say from time to time, it's hard to win in the National Football League.

I grew up in a tiny town in Texas, so I understood the world of high school football.

Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.

I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.

Some of my closest friends, the England lads, have played in the Champions League, so it's a big thing to be there as well.

We are a great fit, and I'm excited about the chance to influence a new generation of young footballers alongside Warrior.

I would love to have a career like Zinedine Zidane. He stopped playing, took some time, realised he liked coaching, and started working in the youth academy. I could follow a similar path.

That's how it works, it's football. They need you or they don't.

I grew up in a footballing environment.

Once you coach football in Texas, you fall in love with it.