Famous Quotes & Sayings

The crises of basketball that is hampering the development of the sport cannot be ended by means of exclusion. Consensus and unity are the keys to ending the impasse that stops the Philippines from competing in international basketball events.

Jim Larranaga

What we stand for is far greater than whether we win or lose on a basketball floor. We are all educators. Our responsibility is to teach these youngsters, whether they're basketball players or any other student-athlete we're working with, to set the right example.

Doug Flutie

Hey, I'm just looking for an excuse to retire so I can play summer league baseball, go coach my nephews, play pickup basketball. I've always had that ability to move on to the next thing.

Dot Jones

I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.

Doug Collins

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

Doug Collins

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.

Doug Collins

The great thing about basketball is you work as hard as you can to individually get better so that your team can win

Doug Collins

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

Doug Collins

When your teammate looks you in the eye and holds you accountable, that's the greatest kind of leadership there is

Doug Collins

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.

Donyell Marshall

Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.

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.