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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
Don Meyer
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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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