Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Shula

Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.

Don Meyer

Have character, don't be one.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

Don Meyer

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.

Don Meyer

To those who much has been given, much is expected.

Don Meyer

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.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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.

Don Meyer

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.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Don Meyer

Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

Don Meyer

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

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

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

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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