Don Meyer Quotes

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

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

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

Every day you teach attitude.

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 players responsible for the award.

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

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

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

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

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

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

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

Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.

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

Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.

Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.

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

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

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'

The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

Shared suffering makes a team a team.

Let your players know that you love them.

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

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

We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.

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 (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.

Do the next right thing and you'll be okay.