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Every day you teach attitude.

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
Attitude
Teach
Every
Coaching
Basketball

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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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