Quote

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything 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
Better
Nba
Coaching
Basketball
Worst
Else
Anything
Best

More quotes by 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
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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
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
Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
Don Meyer
Image
Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
Don Meyer
Image
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
Don Meyer
Image
It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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
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
It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
Don Meyer
Image
To be a team, you must be a family.
Don Meyer
Image
Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
Don Meyer
Image
Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
Don Meyer
Image
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
Don Meyer
Image
Every day you teach attitude.
Don Meyer
Image
Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
Don Meyer
Image
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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