Don Meyer
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.Collection: Basketball
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.Collection: Motivational
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.Collection: Basketball
Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.Collection: Basketball
If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.Collection: Basketball
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quickerCollection: Basketball
When you watch the game, be a student of the game.Collection: Basketball
There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.Collection: Basketball
The only thing success should do is make you more humble.Collection: Basketball
If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.Collection: Basketball
To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right.Collection: Sports
I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of themCollection: Basketball
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.Collection: Basketball
Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.Collection: Basketball
Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammatesCollection: Basketball
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.Collection: Basketball
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'Collection: Basketball
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.Collection: Team
Shout praise and whisper criticism.Collection: Basketball
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.Collection: Energy
To be a team, you must be a family.Collection: Basketball
There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.Collection: Basketball
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.Collection: Basketball
Coach like the coach you want to be ten years from now.Collection: Years
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to peopleCollection: Basketball
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.Collection: Basketball
Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.Collection: Basketball
It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.Collection: Basketball
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the teamCollection: Basketball
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.Collection: Basketball
Have character, don't be one.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
To those who much has been given, much is expected.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
Every day you teach attitude.Collection: Basketball
In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.Collection: Basketball
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything elseCollection: Basketball
What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.Collection: Basketball
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.Collection: Basketball
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.Collection: Basketball
Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.Collection: Basketball
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.Collection: Basketball
If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody elseCollection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.Collection: Trying
The team is an extension of the coach.Collection: Basketball
When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.Collection: Basketball
When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.Collection: Basketball