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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
Basketball
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Ideas
Great
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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