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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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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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