Patrick Mahomes Quotes

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.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

I practice a lot.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

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.

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.

I have always tried to improve myself in every practice session. When it comes to playing and preparation, I am as disciplined and dedicated as anyone else.

You practice how you play. I still believe that.

Practice makes perfect and if you practice battling and competing and working hard, then that will transfer over in a game. If you practice just kind of floating around out there in practice, you know that's going to transfer over, too. So I think the harder you work and the more you compete, then that's how you're going to play in a game.

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

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

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.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.'

I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

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.