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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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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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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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