Brad Stevens Quotes

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Brad Stevens

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 22, 1976

What makes Butler truly unique is the people that we have been so blessed to work with.

Brad Stevens

I told our players at Butler, 'I hate to break it to you, but you aren't playing beyond here. That's reality. So why are you so concerned with yourself?' It's a hard lesson, but I told them, 'How you handle your role on this team will be remembered by your coaches and your teammates. It will define you.'

Brad Stevens

If I was playing a game of Sorry or checkers with my nine-year-old, I hate losing. That's just my makeup and personality.

Brad Stevens

You have a chance to show your true colors through adverse times. You can make a conscious decision to change things.

Brad Stevens

When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things go bad, you know how to fix it. The biggest thing is that familiarity.

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I love the game of basketball. I don't know if I like it better than competing.

Brad Stevens

The difference between mediocre, good and great is you're able to have the enthusiasm for prep, to work to prepare to win the same in January that you do in August, when everybody says they're excited.

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There's an old adage of, 'This is what I do, it's not who I am.' There is a line that gets blurry at times because you sometimes become your work, or you sometimes put so much into your work that you can't separate from it. It swallows you up. It really happens during the season and it's a difficult line to manage.

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I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

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One thing I'd like to do better personally is decompress. Obviously when things don't go your way, you'll be thinking of it all the time.

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I love Evan Turner. I think he's a great teammate. I think he's a hard worker. I think he loves basketball. I don't think you can overvalue that.

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I appreciate who I work with, I appreciate the players and the staff.

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My care is that we play with great effort and togetherness. That is what we're looking for. That's what we want to be.

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I've always enjoyed football.

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I think it's great when you get a chance to play for your country.

Brad Stevens

Nobody has had a bigger influence on me as far as day-to-day preparation than Todd Lickliter. He was a huge, huge, huge influence.

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I'm not a late-night guy.

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Strength is never a negative. The stronger you are, the more you're able to defend. The more physical you are, the better you are. The top teams in the NBA are the most physical teams, too.

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Jaylen's a high achiever. You can be a high achiever in every which way. He's a guy that - we've talked about several times - is gonna do bigger things off the court than on it, and he's a special player on it.

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I don't keep a lot of the trophy stuff. I don't pay attention to it.

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