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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
Don Meyer
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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
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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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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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We can always do it better.
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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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