Basketball Quotes by Don Meyer · Page 2

We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street…

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

To be a team, you must be a family.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

To those who much has been given, much is expected.

— Don Meyer

We can always do it better.

— Don Meyer

Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never…

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front…

— Don Meyer

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

You have to learn to play with what you've got.

— Don Meyer

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

— Don Meyer

Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every…

— Don Meyer

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

— Don Meyer

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

— Don Meyer

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer