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We can always do it better.

Don Meyer

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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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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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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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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