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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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Basketball
Somebody
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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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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