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We can always do it better.

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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
Basketball
Better
Always

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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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