Don Meyer Quotes

Have character, don't be one.

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

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

If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.

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

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

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

Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

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

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

You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

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

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

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

The team is an extension of the coach.

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

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

We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.

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.

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

Let your players know that you love them.

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

Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.

We can always do it better.

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

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 build your program from the ideas of great coaches.