Brad Stevens Quotes

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

I want to inspire people and show people no matter what happens, no matter how much you get knocked down, you can pick yourself up. Just keep pushing forward, keep being positive.

When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.

You have to understand that when things go wrong in your life, it doesn't mean you need to quit. It means you need to get stronger and change your plan.

You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do.

I didn't get in to 'Strictly' the first time, but my determination and enthusiasm shone through and got me a job on the show the following year. Don't give up and turn the no's and setbacks into a positive!

I know the first thing I want to do when I come back from a loss is to get in the gym and get better.

You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

Empty the cup every time and it comes back at twice as full. I developed that attitude when I was very, very young, when I decided I didn't want to be a gangster anymore. Whether it's just shining shoes, I said okay, I'm going to do this better than anybody else did it in my life.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

I'm always moving forward.