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

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Nebraska
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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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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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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