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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.

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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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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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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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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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