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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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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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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 it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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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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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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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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