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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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Basketball
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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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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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We can always do it better.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Every day you teach attitude.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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