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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
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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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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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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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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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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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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