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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything 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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Nba
Coaching
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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We can always do it better.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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