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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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Basketball
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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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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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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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