Basketball Quotes by Don Meyer · Page 3

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

— Don Meyer

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

— 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

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

— Don Meyer

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.

— Don Meyer

Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went…

— Don Meyer

We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put…

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours…

— Don Meyer

Have character, don't be one.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— 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

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.

— Don Meyer