Don Meyer Coaching Quotations

When you watch the game, be a student of the game.

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else

Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

To be a team, you must be a family.

The team is an extension of the coach.

There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.

When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.

Every day you teach attitude.

It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.

You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.

Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.

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