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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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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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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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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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