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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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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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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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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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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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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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 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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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