Quote

If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

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
Thank
Basketball
Somebody
Else
Something
Nba

More quotes by 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
You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
Don Meyer
Image
Shared suffering makes a team a team.
Don Meyer
Image
The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
Don Meyer
Image
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
Don Meyer
Image
You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
Don Meyer
Image
Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
Don Meyer
Image
Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
Don Meyer
Image
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
Don Meyer
Image
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
Don Meyer
Image
When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
Don Meyer
Image
Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
Don Meyer
Image
Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
Don Meyer
Image
Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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
The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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
In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
Don Meyer
Image
There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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