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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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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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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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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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