The only thing I've ever wanted to do is play professional football, and be a professional quarterback, so now that it's here and it's getting close, it's just kind of making all that pain and suffering and waiting and working hard worth it.

Josh Allen

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The reason I want to be out on the field is to help my team, whatever which way possible I can. When I can't do that, it hurts me.

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I've got to be smarter with the football.

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Whatever team I go to, I'm going to give them everything, show them the type of character that I am because, like I said, my teammates know exactly who I am; they can vouch for me.

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Hue Jackson is a great guy.

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At the end of the day, it's not where you get drafted. It's not going to set you in stone with how good you're going to be in your NFL career. Obviously, it's being surrounded by the right people, the right coaches, how you present yourself, how you work hard.

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I'm a firm believer in your gut being undefeated.

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I want to be the guy that turns around the Cleveland Browns. The guy that does that is going to be immortalized in Cleveland forever.

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I'm the type of guy who wants the pressure.

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In my opinion, there's nothing better than practicing a play all week and then going on the field and thinking, 'This is going to be a touchdown.'

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You see a lot of smaller-school guys go to the NFL and have success: Carson Wentz, Derek Carr for example.

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I'm going out there, and I'm going to play football how I know to play football.

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Literally everybody talks about 56 percent completion percentage. It gets brought up in every meeting. It's something I'm trying to work on.

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There are times in my career where I could've called it quits, and that would've ate at me for the rest of my life.

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A defensive coordinator is always going to try to throw you something different and get you out of your element, and I have to do better with the pass protection.

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That preconceived notion of me being inaccurate is completely false, and I look forward to changing that over time.

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I'm not really too focused on where I get drafted. It's what I do after I get drafted.

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I truly felt like I was a Division I quarterback, and I'd felt that way for a long time. I just wanted other people to see it.

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Seeing my dad wake up super early when the sun wasn't even out and then coming home when the sun was set, he worked his tail off to provide for our family and did a great job. He's the most selfless man I know, and I think if I'm half the man he is, I'll be all right in this world.

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I think that kids who are at smaller schools or don't have offers from big schools can look at my story and continue to work hard. I preach to them that it doesn't matter where you come from: it matters how you play and how you apply yourself.

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It's every kid's dream to be drafted No. 1.

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