Brad Stevens Quotes

Accolades are there to congratulate you but also to make you understand that it's not over. You now have to continue trying to improve the craft and keep going. It's not something to rest on.

You have to keep trying to get better.

I still want to make more plays, but you know it's going to come. You gotta keep playing, playing hard, continue to study, continue to get myself better, working on my technique, and it will come. Just gotta keep working.

It's funny that I love golf so much because I'm not usually drawn to things I'm not so good at. It's all about practice and working and not getting discouraged.

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

Without failure there is no achievement.

We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better.

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

I'm going to get better and better. You never stop learning in this game.

Sometimes a player thinks it's enough what they did the year before and doesn't understand that every day they should improve.

I'm just working every day to improve.

When I was about 15, I learnt that training hard doesn't get easier, you just learn to push harder. That's a powerful mentality to master.

I'm just trying to work on my game and get better. That's all I can do. Keep working hard, keep trying.

The key is to keep playing hard and the rest will take care of itself.

Never stop believing in yourself; play with your qualities. You always have to keep making steps. Progress is everything. The big players, every season, they become a new player: they learn, and they learn. That's the key.

Winning is, of course, rewarding; who doesn't enjoy winning? But for me, it's about more than just winning: it's about knowing I'm putting in the day-to-day work to get a little bit better every time.