Brad Stevens Quotes

It's not for everybody, and some of the toughest people I've ever met in my lifetime, I met in the wrestling ring.

I think I'm a crazy competitor when it comes to basketball.

I've always liked big challenges in football and playing against the best.

Rugby is a sport in which you can lose heavily one week and still come back and smash the opposition the next.

It's the essence of sport to be able to swallow tough things up.

Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.

Miesha is a great athlete, really tough. I know that.

The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.

Match play really exposes your character and how much of a will to win you have in your heart.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

You've got to have steel in you somewhere.

I'm very tough.

There's no substitute for guts.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

Whatever I lack in size and strength and speed, I kind of make up for in being grittier. When it comes to something like basketball I'm definitely not the best guy on the court, but I love elbowing and pushing people out or boxing them out.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

I run to see who has the most guts.

My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

Every day, across our state, we see grit and resilience.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn't be carried off. He walked off.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.

As tired as I am, I can always go another round, and I feel the other guy can't.