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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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We can always do it better.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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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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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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