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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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Right
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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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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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We can always do it better.
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We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
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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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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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