Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
Basketball
Figures
Team
Keep
Coach
Find
Edge
Trying
Coaches
Edges
Figure
More quotes by Don Meyer
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
Don Meyer
There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
Don Meyer
Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Don Meyer
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
Don Meyer
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
Don Meyer
Shared suffering makes a team a team.
Don Meyer
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
Don Meyer
The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
Don Meyer
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
Don Meyer
You have to learn to play with what you've got.
Don Meyer
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
Don Meyer
Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
Don Meyer
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
Don Meyer
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
Don Meyer
Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
Don Meyer
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
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
If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
Don Meyer
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
Don Meyer
You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
Don Meyer