Pat Metheny Quotes

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.

I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It's just boring old habits.

I am just trying to keep my performances consistent.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

My principal at RADA once told me, 'You'll know you're a professional when you don't feel like doing it but you have to do it.'

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

I practice a lot.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.

And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.

Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.

No matter what the circumstances are, I've never seen Tom Brady come out and not give it all in practice. There's never any change in him. Whenever he's out on the field, he's giving it all, and he's just such a competitor.

I'm used to practicing. I'm used to the schedule. That's kind of what I was born to do. That's what I've been doing my whole life.

If you practice anything enough, you can be consistent.

Put in the work in every day, put in the work in training, and it will show on the field.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.