Don Meyer Coaching Academy Notes

Legendary Coach Don Meyer shares a long list of thoughts, experiences, and wisdoms to help coaches find success. The topics range from coaching, communication, development, and basketball strategy.

Quotes

• “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
• “Good enough is the enemy of great.”

Winning Thought

• In these notes, legendary Coach Don Meyer shares a long list of thoughts, experiences, and wisdoms to help coaches find success. The topics range from coaching, communication, development, and basketball strategy.

Identify Emphasis Tags

• Coaching
• Culture
• Offense
• Defense
• Player Development

Knowledge for Coaches

• Do I love coaching, more than I love winning?
• Process over Product – Love to Coach
• If I had a team… Be sound. Be Solid. Be simple.
• 3 Stages of Coaching. Passion. Duty. Burden.
• 5 Career Stages. Survival. Success. Satisfaction. Significance. Spent.
• Worst reason to take a job is money.
• 3 types of people. Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Losers talk about other people.
• 3 ways to live your life. Find my gift. Develop my gift to the fullest. Give my gift away every day.
• Two types of jobs. Stepping stone jobs. Kidney stone jobs.
• 2 kinds of pain. Pain of discipline. Pain of regret.