Don Meyer Quotes - Page 3

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• You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Winning, Championship

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• You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Jobs, Pigs

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• 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

  Basketball, Looks, Tonight

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• You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Children, Nba

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• Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Sometimes

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• It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Matter

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• The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

  Don Meyer

  Inspiring, Keys, Next

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• Shared suffering makes a team a team.

  Don Meyer

  Team, Suffering

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• Let your players know that you love them.

  Don Meyer

  Player, Knows

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• Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Teaching, Successful

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• Have character, don't be one.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Character

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• You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Practice, Games

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• Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Not Happy

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• 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

  Basketball, Fighting, Might

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

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Nba, Want

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• If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Mean, Hands

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• If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Long Ago, Decision

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• Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Cutting, Player

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• Shout praise and whisper criticism.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Coaching, Criticism

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• We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Beautiful, Differences

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• Make the practices like games and the games like practices.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Practice, Nba

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• Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Planning, Poor

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• A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

  Don Meyer

  Teaching, Player, Program

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• Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Son

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• 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

  Basketball, Team, Trying

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