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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

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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Everyone
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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