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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

Don Meyer

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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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Keys
Success
Next
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Thing

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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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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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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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