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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 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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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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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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Every day you teach attitude.
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