Brad Stevens Quotes

My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.

I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.

My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.

You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

Everyone knows where I play, as a defensive midfielder, more or less the same, so in the last six or seven years I play in that position and there is nothing new for me.

Football is football. I've been playing the same game for 25 years.

I've been able to have some longevity here with the Chargers. It is unique.

I've been linked with lots of clubs but that's what tends to happen if you stay in the same job for five years. It means you have brought a level of success.

I think, when a manager has been at a club for more than 20 years, he can only have a positive impact.

Growing up, I did a lot of work that was technically based. So, I sort of feel that, no matter where you're playing, the basics are still the basics. Then it's just about adjusting on the day.

I had a friend who was the King's surgeon in England. One day I asked him what makes a great surgeon. He replied, "What distinguishes a great surgeon is his knowledge. He knows more than other surgeons. During an operation he finds something which he wasn't expecting, recognizes it and knows what to do about it." It's the same thing with advertising people. The good ones know more. How do you get to know more? By reading books about advertising. By picking the brains of people who know more than you do. From the Magic Lanterns. And from experience.

I've seen everything during my career.

At the end of the day, it is hockey. It's the same game, the rules don't change. It's the same hockey game I've been playing since I was 2 years old. I think you can kind of rely on that.

In my long career I have experienced a lot, but never changed.

Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.

I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

I'm used to the Journey routine now.

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

I'm going to be the coach at Florida as long as they'll have me.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there's an attachment. But you don't want anything to become comfortable.

I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I'm a film-maker who travels all the time. I'm always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it's the one thing in your life that's never changed.