Don Meyer Quotes About Coaching

Quotes about: Coaching

• Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

• Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

• Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hard Work, Successful

• When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

• Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Discipline, Coaching

• To be a team, you must be a family.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Men, Nba

• Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Attitude

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Winning, Coaching

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Heart, Coaching

• Shout praise and whisper criticism.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Criticism

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Shooter

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Giving, Coaching

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Dirty, Pigs

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Guy

• The team is an extension of the coach.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Two

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Distance, Track

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Player

• You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Ideas, Coaching

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Long Ago, Decision

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Player

• Every day you teach attitude.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Attitude, Coaching

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