Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by 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.

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

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.

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.

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.'

Nutrition and sleep are two of the most underrated things, especially with younger kids.

I'm boring.

I believe you're either intrinsically motivated or you're not.

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

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?

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

In an ideal world, we all walk out our door and we all feel the same way about going out to run an errand, going for a jog, whatever the case may be. That shouldn't be a stressful thing.

You have to play together and play the right way.

You always have to be growing.

Nobody wants to play without fans.

My experience at DePauw was about as beneficial as any experience I've had.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm not a big basketball book guy.

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.

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.

I guess my Indy friends don't always love to hear this, but yeah I root for the Pats.

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

I learned you don't put limitations on yourself.

I guess I could be happy in anything where you feel like there's a scoreboard.

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.

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.

College makes you grow up.

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

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

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

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

Do your job one play at a time.

The more prepared I am, the calmer I will be.

That's part of free agency. You can go where you want at the end of the day.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

As a coach, you have to have a short-term memory when it comes to shooting. Let it fly and move on.

I could probably go through our losses in a lot more detail than our wins, all through my career. But you have to be able to move on to what's next, and I'm very process-oriented and next-day oriented.

Jaylen's greatest impact, as good as he is at basketball, won't be at basketball. I just think he's a special guy. He's a special leader.

Two points doesn't seem like a lot, but there's only 2 points that separate the best from the worst sometimes.

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.

I just like competing.

Your strengths have to stand out. Your strengths have to be perfected.

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.

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

I'm a huge Billy Donovan fan.

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.

When you work in the pharmaceutical industry you realize that there's a lot out of people's control, and there's ways that people can be helped.

You're supposed to keep learning. You're not supposed to stagnate.

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.

Of all the great moments at Butler, I still remember the losses most vividly. I don't know why. I guess that's kind of what drives you.

You always want to put time and thought into how guys can improve during the offseason.