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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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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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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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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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 can always do it better.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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