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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.

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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Coaches
Basketball
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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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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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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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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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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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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