Brad Stevens

Coach

1976-10-22

Brad Stevens is an American basketball executive and former coach, known for coaching the Boston Celtics and later serving as the team's president of basketball operations.

Quotes by Brad Stevens

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.
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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.
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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 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.'
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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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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.
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