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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.

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
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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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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Every day you teach attitude.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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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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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody 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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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