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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.

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
People
Deal
Deals
Study
Teach

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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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 sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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