Quote

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Don Meyer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
Without
Demeaning
Coaching
Basketball
Demand
Discipline

More quotes by Don Meyer

Image
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.
Don Meyer
Image
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
Don Meyer
Image
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
Image
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
Don Meyer
Image
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.
Don Meyer
Image
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
Don Meyer
Image
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
Don Meyer
Image
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
Don Meyer
Image
There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
Don Meyer
Image
To be a team, you must be a family.
Don Meyer
Image
I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
Don Meyer
Image
You have to learn to play with what you've got.
Don Meyer
Image
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
Image
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
Don Meyer
Image
Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
Don Meyer
Image
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.
Don Meyer
Image
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
Don Meyer
Image
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
Don Meyer
Image
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
Don Meyer
Image
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
Don Meyer