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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help 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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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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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