Football Quotes by Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

Shared suffering makes a team a team.

— Don Meyer

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

— Don Meyer

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

— Don Meyer

Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— 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

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.

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

— 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

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

— Don Meyer

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

The team is an extension of the coach.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

Let your players know that you love them.

— 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

Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— 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

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer