Don Meyer Quotes About Basketball
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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.
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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.
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Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
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Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
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Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
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Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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The team is an extension of the coach.
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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.
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When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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If you are a good team, your offense is born on the defensive end.
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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
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It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
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In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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.
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Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
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Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.
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