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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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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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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 never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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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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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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We can always do it better.
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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya 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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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