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 dirty pigs
Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
basketball team coaching
To be a team, you must be a family.
basketball player coaching
Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
basketball tonight may
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.
basketball long-ago decision
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
basketball play hard
There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.
basketball team son
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
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.
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 player important
Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates
teaching player program
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.
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 games coaching
Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
basketball children play
You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach