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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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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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Every day you teach attitude.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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