Brad Stevens Quotes
As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Therefore only an utterly senseless person can fail to know that our characters are the result of our conduct.
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Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.
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I think any of us, including Coach Parcells, would say that it's players that win games. You have to have great players.
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That was the first time we got manhandled by somebody in the regular season. Our guys just took it upon themselves. They knew what needed to be done and they knew they needed to play hard.
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All I want to do is win. I'll change anything about me, what I'm doing, the coaching staff . . . I don't care.
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If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.
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You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.
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When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.
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Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.
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You cannot play for safety and make art.
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If you choose to do both acting and directing on a set, than you're admitting that you understand that everyone is in it for the same goal and it's a collaborative experience. You can't really jump into being an actor, and than direct yourself. At some point, you have to be willing to accept other people's opinions. I think that's helpful. If you try to micro-manage and control all of it, than you're probably heading for disaster.
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I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I need right now: More words dedicated to people who will never dedicate a single thing to me
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Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
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As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.
