BRAD STEVENS

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I can tell you right now, anybody that says I'm genius, that is the farthest thing from the truth.

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 don't focus well angry.

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

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

At the end of the day, you do this job because you really like working with your team and like the chance to compete as an organization.

I think the NBA's amazing and I think our players are amazing.

If somebody gives you accolades, that's nice to hear but it's not the end-all, be-all for me.

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

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.

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.

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.

I do think in numbers. My mind works that way.

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

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

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

I haven't been near perfect by any means. In fact, I've got a list of things I want to do better.

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.

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 a huge Billy Donovan fan.