Quote

Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.

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
Good
Shooters
Shooter
Coaching
Shots
Basketball
Best
Take

More quotes by Don Meyer

Image
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
Don Meyer
Image
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
Don Meyer
Image
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
Don Meyer
Image
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
Don Meyer
Image
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
Don Meyer
Image
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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
The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
Don Meyer
Image
To be a team, you must be a family.
Don Meyer
Image
Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
Don Meyer
Image
What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
Don Meyer
Image
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
Image
Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
Don Meyer
Image
Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
Don Meyer
Image
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
Don Meyer
Image
Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Don Meyer
Image
We can always do it better.
Don Meyer
Image
Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
Don Meyer