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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
Always
Basketball
Better

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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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 programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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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 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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
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