Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Don Meyer

It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

Don Meyer

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

Don Meyer

If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.

Don Meyer

Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

Don Meyer

If you can do something and not blow your own horn, it sure sounds a lot better.

Don Meyer

Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.

Don Meyer

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Don Meyer

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

Claudio Reyna

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.

Doc Rivers

This team is one execution away from being a very good basketball team.

Doc Rivers

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

Doc Rivers

If you're not talking, you're not playing defense