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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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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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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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