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Brad Stevens

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 22, 1976

One of my biggest regrets in coaching was my eighth or ninth game of my career. I was wound up about a conference game in December - I was wound up tight, and we ended up playing really tight. Our players were bickering with the officials, I was bickering... and then all of a sudden we lose.

Brad Stevens

I like to be pretty streamlined, to maximize our time on the practice floor. I like to make sure I'm respectful of our players' time.

Brad Stevens

I find five or six restaurants and I just constantly order from them or go there. I don't change much.

Brad Stevens

All 15 guys on every team want to play all 48 minutes. It's just kind of the way that every season goes.

Brad Stevens

I've always found that in a team of 15 people, it's a little different than in a team of 40 or 50 people. If I name two or three people captains, inevitably you're disempowering more than you're empowering.

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We truly love Butler University and Indianapolis and are very thankful to have had the opportunity to celebrate so many wonderful things together.

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I'm pretty bland. I'm not a big decorator.

Brad Stevens

You always have to be growing.

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That's the toughest part about coaching, I think, is that the longer you're in it, the more winning becomes, 'Phew, I'm glad we won,' and the losing is like just the most brutal thing ever.

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I couldn't be more proud to be in the NBA, to be with the Celtics and be surrounded by the people I get to go to work with every day.

Brad Stevens

You have to prepare well to ultimately get where you want to go.

Brad Stevens

The longer I've gone on in coaching, the more I take everything as information and not as much emotional.

Brad Stevens

I don't think patient would be the first word that anybody that knows me would describe me as. But I think that's anybody in competitive sports.

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I'm not a big basketball book guy.

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I haven't been near perfect by any means. In fact, I've got a list of things I want to do better.

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Nobody wants to play without fans.

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Basketball has given me so many opportunities, and it's something that's opened the world to me and allowed me to travel really all over the world.

Brad Stevens

I think the biggest thing in this league is how many positions can you guard and do you have a strength offensively that's applicable?

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Anything that we all can do to get a little bit better or think a little bit differently or use the lens of someone else in another industry to help in your own management, I think, is really important.

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There's no doubt what the goal in Boston is. There is no grey, it is black and white. You're going to try to win the whole thing every single year.

Brad Stevens