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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.'
Don Meyer
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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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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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We can always do it better.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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