Quote

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

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
Away
Give
Giving
Every
Nba
Discover
Develop
Basketball
Gift

More quotes by 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
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
Don Meyer
Image
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
Don Meyer
Image
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
Don Meyer
Image
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
Don Meyer
Image
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
Don Meyer
Image
Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
Don Meyer
Image
The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
Don Meyer
Image
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
Don Meyer
Image
Every day you teach attitude.
Don Meyer
Image
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
Don Meyer
Image
Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
Don Meyer
Image
If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
Don Meyer
Image
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
Don Meyer
Image
You have to learn to play with what you've got.
Don Meyer
Image
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
Don Meyer