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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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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 never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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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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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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