Brad Stevens Quotes

As people know in coaching, you can get fired and hired just like that.

There is no moment where you can rest and think: 'Wonderful, I have that job now. I'm going to spend five years here.' There's a constant judgment on your work that's very strongly related to what you are.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it's going to be successful.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

Kentucky is the best job in basketball coaching. Why would I leave?

The reality of a long-term career is that there are ups and downs.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

I can't confirm any rumors. I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I have no interest in going back to coaching.

If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

Any time you have a dream job of where you want to work, it's so incredible, and I don't think that people realize it could go away.

This is a tough business, and you're asked to do a job. And part of doing that job is to rate and to do well and to perform, and at certain points, when people are unable to do the job they're hired to do, what happens is people are let go. Their contract is not renewed.

I don't want to be fired after two seasons and risk never getting another opportunity to coach.

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.

That is the difference from being a manager and being a player: As a player, if you sign a contract for four years, if you want to be there for four years, you are. But as a manager, it always depends on the sack. You are always under pressure.

There is pressure from day one when you start your career.

I will always worry about where my career is going and am I any good.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

I want to finish my career in Seattle but it's rocky.

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.