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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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We can always do it better.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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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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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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