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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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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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We can always do it better.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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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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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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