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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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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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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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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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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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