Basketball Quotes by Don Meyer · Page 2

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— 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

We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not…

— Don Meyer

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at…

— Don Meyer

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.

— Don Meyer

Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches…

— Don Meyer

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

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

— Don Meyer

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

— 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