A biography for Brad Stevenshasn’t been written yet.
“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.'”
“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 don't have the five positions anymore. It may be as simple as three positions now, where you're either a ball-handler, a wing or a big.”
“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.”
“All 15 guys on every team want to play all 48 minutes. It's just kind of the way that every season goes.”
“We want to be as routine-oriented as we can, but it's just not always feasible.”
“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.”
“I've always enjoyed football.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I learned you don't put limitations on yourself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What makes Butler truly unique is the people that we have been so blessed to work with.”
“I guess my Indy friends don't always love to hear this, but yeah I root for the Pats.”
“I'm boring.”
“We truly love Butler University and Indianapolis and are very thankful to have had the opportunity to celebrate so many wonderful things together.”
“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 love the game of basketball. I don't know if I like it better than competing.”