Basketball Quotes by Don Meyer

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

— Don Meyer

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

To be a team, you must be a family.

— Don Meyer

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

— Don Meyer

Every day you teach attitude.

— Don Meyer

The team is an extension of the coach.

— Don Meyer

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

— 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

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

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

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— 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

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

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

— Don Meyer

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

— Don Meyer

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

— 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

When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time…

— 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

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

— Don Meyer

We can always do it better.

— Don Meyer

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

Have character, don't be one.

— 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

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— 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