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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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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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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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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 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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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