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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
Basketball
Team
Family
Must
Coaching

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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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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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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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