Quotes from Brad Stevens

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

You have to play together and play the right way.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I'm a huge Billy Donovan fan.

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

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

The game honors toughness

I've been really fortunate to have coached in some moments that you can only dream about coaching in. The day after, you wake up and you try to do it again.

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

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

I just like competing.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.