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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
Coaching
Basketball
Attitude
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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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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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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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I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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 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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
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