Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Don Meyer.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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.
We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.
Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
You have to learn to play with what you've got.
Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.
Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.
Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.
Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
Shout praise and whisper criticism.
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.
Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
We can always do it better.
A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.
Let your players know that you love them.
We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
Make the practices like games and the games like practices.