Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

We can always do it better.

Don Meyer

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.

Don Meyer

Every day you teach attitude.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

Don Meyer

When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.

Don Meyer

The team is an extension of the coach.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

To be a team, you must be a family.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.

Don Meyer

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

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 and all the players responsible for the award.

Don Meyer

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.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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.

Don Meyer

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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 again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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