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To be a team, you must be a family.

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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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 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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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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