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.
Brad Stevens
You have a chance to show your true colors through adverse times. You can make a conscious decision to change things.
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.
It's so much fun to dream in your driveway. I had an old wooden backboard in my driveway. That's where my friends and I hung out.
I can tell you right now, anybody that says I'm genius, that is the farthest thing from the truth.
If I was playing a game of Sorry or checkers with my nine-year-old, I hate losing. That's just my makeup and personality.
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.
What makes Butler truly unique is the people that we have been so blessed to work with.
I'm not a late-night guy.
I'm only interested in being better than everyone else thought you could be.
As far as routine goes, one of the things we talk about all the time is that if you have a routine that's great. But you can't be like married to it because the bus could break down on the way to the arena, you could get stuck in traffic, you may be sick that day and you may feel better by game time.
I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.
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.
I'm pretty bland. I'm not a big decorator.
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'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.
We want to be as routine-oriented as we can, but it's just not always feasible.
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.
Nutrition and sleep are two of the most underrated things, especially with younger kids.
I believe you're either intrinsically motivated or you're not.
As a coach, you have to have a short-term memory when it comes to shooting. Let it fly and move on.
Strength is never a negative. The stronger you are, the more you're able to defend. The more physical you are, the better you are. The top teams in the NBA are the most physical teams, too.
You're supposed to keep learning. You're not supposed to stagnate.
I love the game of basketball. I don't know if I like it better than competing.
I just like competing.
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.
I guess I could be happy in anything where you feel like there's a scoreboard.
My experience at DePauw was about as beneficial as any experience I've had.
College makes you grow up.
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.'
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.
I don't keep a lot of the trophy stuff. I don't pay attention to it.
I get great satisfaction from trying to get better and trying to do the next thing as well as I can.
I find five or six restaurants and I just constantly order from them or go there. I don't change much.
I'm a huge Billy Donovan fan.
Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.
Jaylen's greatest impact, as good as he is at basketball, won't be at basketball. I just think he's a special guy. He's a special leader.
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 appreciate who I work with, I appreciate the players and the staff.
I'm boring.
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 learned you don't put limitations on yourself.
When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things go bad, you know how to fix it. The biggest thing is that familiarity.
The more prepared I am, the calmer I will be.
I guess my Indy friends don't always love to hear this, but yeah I root for the Pats.
I like Kyrie, and I wish him nothing but health and success.
That's part of free agency. You can go where you want at the end of the day.
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.
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.
You have to play together and play the right way.
