Don Meyer
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.Collection: Motivational
Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coachCollection: Basketball
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.Collection: Basketball
The key to success is to do the next right thing right.Collection: Inspiring
Shared suffering makes a team a team.Collection: Team
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.Collection: Basketball
Let your players know that you love them.Collection: Player
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.Collection: Basketball
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.Collection: Basketball
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.Collection: Basketball
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.Collection: Basketball
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.Collection: Basketball
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.Collection: Teaching
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.Collection: Basketball
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.Collection: Basketball
Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.Collection: People
Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.Collection: Games
Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.Collection: Seasons
Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.Collection: People
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.Collection: Basketball
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.Collection: Basketball
We can always do it better.Collection: Basketball
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.Collection: Basketball
Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.Collection: Basketball
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.Collection: Basketball
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.Collection: Basketball
You have to learn to play with what you've got.Collection: Basketball
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.Collection: Basketball
Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.Collection: Basketball
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.Collection: Basketball