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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
Don Meyer
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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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 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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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 key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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