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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
Every
Coaching
Basketball
Attitude
Teach

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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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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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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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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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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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