Quote

Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

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
Prevents
Prior
Proper
Planning
Performance
Performances
Basketball
Poor
Pitiful

More quotes by Don Meyer

Image
Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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
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
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.
Don Meyer
Image
To be a team, you must be a family.
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
The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
Don Meyer
Image
Let your players know that you love them.
Don Meyer
Image
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
Don Meyer
Image
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
Don Meyer
Image
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
Don Meyer
Image
If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
Don Meyer
Image
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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
Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
Don Meyer
Image
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
Don Meyer
Image
Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
Don Meyer
Image
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
Don Meyer
Image
Every day you teach attitude.
Don Meyer
Image
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
Don Meyer