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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

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
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Important
Marching
Nba
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Basketball

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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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 never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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We can always do it better.
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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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Study people who can teach you how to deal with 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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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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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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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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