Don Meyer
Don Meyer
Donald Wayne Meyerwas an American college basketball coach who completed his career in 2010 as head coach of the men's team at Northern State University. He was once head coach at Hamline University and Lipscomb University. Meyer was born in 1944 in Wayne, Nebraska...
basketball hurt team
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.
basketball discipline coaching
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
basketball children play
You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
basketball team leader
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
basketball team son
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
basketball men advice
It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
basketball winning coaching
Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
basketball causes ifs
Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
basketball hard-work cutting
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.
basketball team player
Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
basketball games coaching
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
basketball morning practice
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.
basketball player thinking
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.
teaching player program
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.