NBA Quotes by Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

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

— Don Meyer

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

— Don Meyer

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

— Don Meyer

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Don Meyer