Career
He was named as ruck rover in the club"s official "Team of the Century". In 1998 he was an All Australian and in the same year he represented Victoria at State of Origin football. Stevens lost two litres of blood and had two operations after injuries caused when falling glass hit Stevens outside the Redback Brewery Hotel in North Melbourne on 11 March 2000.
Stevens suffered a 20-centimetre gash from the corner of his mouth along his right cheek and down the side of his mouth.
The condemnation from Anthony Stevens and his teammates caused Carey to resign from the North Melbourne Football Club. He retired at the end of the 2004 season.
He and former Kangaroos teammate Glenn Archer got together to play one match for the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club. He is described as:
"A tough, gritty on-baller from Shepparton who has always been willing to put his hand up for the hardest jobs."
"He"s so determined that you have to slow him down sometimes.
"I think he was fairly low, but he"s the sort of bloke who never lets that stuff show.
He"s very bubbly, always got a smile on his face, although shy and reserved to the people who don"t really know him. He"s still maintained that pretty much, but I know privately he was pretty low, firstly about missing such a long period of time and secondly how lucky he was in terms of the seriousness of the injury." - Former Kangaroo Football Manager Geoff Walsh on Stevens in the wake of the injury when a shard of glass almost killed him. After he retired from the American Federation of Labor-Congress Stevens accepted and ambassadorship with the VCFL. He played with Benalla in the Goulburn Valley Florida for a number of years.