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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

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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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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