Editor’s Note: Cordarrelle (pronounced CORE-DARE-uhl) Patterson was the last of the Vikings’ three first-round draft picks in 2013. Patterson, 22, a wide receiver from the University of Tennessee, is the latest subject in Pioneer Press sports columnist Bob Sansevere’s continuing series of first-person stories.

Of course, I want to be one of the greatest of all time. I want everyone to know who I am and remember me.

Everybody wanted to grow up and be a football player. It’s here now, and it’s awesome.

I have so much fun on the field, I try not to look at losses as something bad. I just try to get ready for the next week to get a win.

If I had a time machine, I’d want to go back in time to see all the things that happened and I’d want to go forward and see cars flying in the air.

Growing up, I liked watching “Scooby Doo.”

I’d want to be like Flash if I could have superhero powers. I like to call myself Flash. I want to be flashy. Flash was everything. I guess it’d be the speed I’d want.

I really don’t like eating breakfast. It seems like it tears my stomach up a lot. I like to eat later on, like 12 p.m.

I’m on a diet right now. I’m eating a little salad, chicken breast. That’s probably about it.

My junior year in high school, I ran track. My senior year, I played basketball and ran track. I was a forward in basketball. I was a dunker and rebounder. I was a big guy, but I was quick on my feet. I used to pick the guards at halfcourt and go dunk in their face.

I’d say my mother has had the biggest influence in my life. She’s been there since Day 1 and has always been there. She always knows the right thing to say.

I wore 84 in high school and college. It’s just the number they made me get. I’m stuck with it now.

It’s great having Greg Jennings on the team. Every time I do something, good or bad, he always gives me good advice. It’s pretty amazing to have a guy like him.

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‘m respectful, loyal, everything.

I’m a funny guy, a good-looking guy, a handsome man. I like to smile. I never do no one wrong. I try to respect people because I want them to respect me, as well.

I’m single.

“Friday” is the funniest movie I ever saw.

Best movie? “Friday.”

Chris Tucker is my favorite actor. Chris Tucker is so funny.

My pet peeve is dirty stuff. I like my room to be clean and neat. I like to be a neat guy. If I have a roommate, I want him to be as neat as me.

I’d want my friends to say about me, “He’s friendly. Always happy. Always smiling. He likes to shop. He likes to have a good time. Everywhere he goes, you can see him having a good time. He’s never down.”

When I sign my contract, I’m going to buy my mama a house or a car — whatever she wants.

Clothes and shoes. I like fashion. I’m a fashion guy.

I don’t read books. I don’t like reading. If it’s a playbook, I’ll read that. All the other boring books, I can’t read them.

I don’t play video games.

I like BET.

My last meal? I’d want it to be chicken, fried chicken, chicken wings. That’s it.

I like R&B, country, slow music. I like it all.

Rascal Flatts is my favorite group.

I wouldn’t change anything about my life. It’s not perfect, but I wouldn’t change anything. I don’t have no regrets.

The best advice I ever got was from my mother. She always told me, “Don’t ever look back at something when you’re down. Always look ahead into the future.”

Bad advice? When I hear bull crap, I let it go in one ear and out the other. I don’t listen to it.

If I could trade places with anyone, it’d be my mother. I’d want to see what it was like raising me. I was a crazy little kid growing up. I’d want to see how she stressed over me and all the things she went through raising me.

The worst thing I did as a kid probably was throwing rocks at police cars. Oh, no, they never caught me. I was always fast. They couldn’t catch me. Oh, no. That’s when I was young, now. I was about 12.

I’d say I knew I could play in the NFL when I was in junior college. When I got there, a lot of people told me, “If you keep your head right and keep doing the things you’re supposed to do, we think you can play in the NFL.”

I want my epitaph to say, “Here lies Cordarrelle Patterson, who was a funny, great guy.” I don’t ask too much.

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