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

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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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 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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
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