Brad Stevens Quotes

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Brad Stevens

Profession : Coach

Birth : October 22, 1976

I like Kyrie, and I wish him nothing but health and success.

Brad Stevens

If we can do something to help show people that it's not only OK - we encourage asking for help, because we take care of everybody's physical needs all over the place, we should all be on top of all of our mental needs and wellness needs.

Brad Stevens

I think you just have to work as hard as you can. Sometimes you're going to fail, but the way I look at it is if you're always focused on the process, you're going to fail forward, and you're going to keep building and growing.

Brad Stevens

I have a pretty good idea of what makes NBA players great - especially at the different positions, and where the biggest problems lie that you have to address in defending those people.

Brad Stevens

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.

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You have to play together and play the right way.

Brad Stevens

It's so much fun to dream in your driveway. I had an old wooden backboard in my driveway. That's where my friends and I hung out.

Brad Stevens

I've said this about many people, but when you were recruiting against John Beilein you knew it was a fair fight, a real fight and he was going to do it the right way. I have a lot of respect for John. He's a heck of a coach and he will do a great job in Cleveland.

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I think that some of the best runs that I've been on as a coach have come as the result of a tough loss or a string of tough losses that galvanized us and made us figure out who we were. Then we were able to take off. You have to use them as learning experiences and move forward.

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That's what the great teams do. That's where, if you're a good shooter, become a great one. If you're a good ballhandler, become a great one.

Brad Stevens

I look across the league at some of these really good teams and these great players, and you give a guy that shoots 18-footers an 18-footer, he makes it every time. Every. Single. Time. You give a guy an open 3 and he makes it every single time.

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I'm not one of these guys that can stay up until 3 in the morning and get up at 5.

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I think in coaching you just expect it to end at some point by being let go or by being fired. It's just kind of the nature of the business, so I've never really focused on that. I'm just trying to focus on doing the job as well as I can.

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One of my greatest regrets in coaching is the Butler Final Four runs, because if I would have been a seasoned coach, I think we would have won.

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I think the first assumption as a coach can't be that we just have to run harder or do it tougher. You have to understand that everybody is a human being and you have to understand that everybody has things that they're dealing with.

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Keeping myself motivated is not hard.

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I get great satisfaction from trying to get better and trying to do the next thing as well as I can.

Brad Stevens

I think the game will always be dependent on the players that are at its most elite level at that time.

Brad Stevens