« All Player Quotes · Don Meyer's Page
Player Quotes by Don Meyer
- Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
- Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
- Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
- Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
- Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.
- Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
- Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
- Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
- In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
- Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the…
- Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team…
- Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates
More Player Quotes
- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac
- I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them. — Ernie Banks
- It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as… — Ernie Banks
- I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team… — Charles Barkley
- I love little kids looking up to me, young players looking up to me, respecting me. — David Beckham
- The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish. — George Benson
- I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em?… — Yogi Berra
- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
- Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as… — Larry Bird
- Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able… — Larry Bird
- The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson. — Larry Bird
- The best players will play. That's the way it will always be. — Larry Bird