FRISCO, Texas — Dak Prescott was nervous. He practiced his words in his head over and over. He wanted everything to be perfect.

Not a Dallas Cowboys’ win. Not a pass to CeeDee Lamb. But his proposal to his girlfriend, Sarah Jane Ramos, which came last week during the Cowboys’ bye.

“The kind of nerves you have going into a game. You’re ready. You’re excited about it, but you want everything to go really, really well,” Prescott said. “For me, I just kept repeating what I was going to say because I heard everybody else and their proposals, ‘Man, I blacked out. I’ve done this and I don’t even know what I said.’ So for me it was to keep it short and sweet.”

Prescott was at a golf course since Sarah Jane loves to play.

“Set it up with a couple friends. She had no idea. She’s a big golfer, thought we were going golfing,” he said. “Told her we had a lifetime to golf. We’ll golf another day.”

Prescott initially was going to propose over the holidays but changed his mind. He bought the ring a few months ago so he was ready. The ring was in a fake golf ball that Prescott brought out after sinking a putt.

“I dropped it and she almost hit it,” Prescott said. “[I said] wait. Just glad she said yeah and just super, super blessed and happy and thankful for this family I started.”

Prescott and Ramos have a daughter, Margaret Jane Rose, better known as M.J., who was born in February. She is named after Prescott’s mother, Peggy, who died of cancer when he was at Mississippi State.

He thought of his mother as he proposed.

“Getting engaged obviously is a family thing. It’s one thing women grow up thinking about,” Prescott said. “It was awesome to have her parents come up a little bit after and they brought M.J. to see us. But just in reflection how proud my mom would be of the family that I’m starting, the woman that I’ve got. she’s got some similarities to how tough she is as my mom did.”