Baker Mayfield

“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.”

“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.”

“Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There's no doubt about that.”

“If you can grab a ball and throw it, you can grab a ball and throw it. I don't care how tall you are, either. I'm not gonna see over a 6-foot-7 left tackle. You've gotta find lanes; you've g...”

“I appreciate all the kids who come up and enjoy my play at OU. But everybody giving me their opinions is where I draw the line. If it's someone who hasn't been there before, I really can't h...”

“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 t...”

“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.”

“Community service has been a great thing for me.”

“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.”

“People will have their guesses and opinions on my character, but anyone that's actually sat down and talked to me knows that I don't have any character issues, any off-the-field issues.”

“The energy I bring, the passion I bring, it's infectious. You can ask anybody on that Oklahoma staff. That's what I bring to the table.”

“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 am a huge Justin Timberlake fan.”

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

“My dad thinks I have a photographic memory.”

“I've always been a guy to keep positive energy on the sideline.”

“Not everybody responds to yelling at 'em or jumping all over 'em. Sometimes you need to put your arm around somebody and encourage them.”

“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, d...”