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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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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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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 it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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