Best 78 quotes of Don Meyer on MyQuotes

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.

Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.

Every day you teach attitude.

Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

Shared suffering makes a team a team.

Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.