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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
Deal
Deals
Study
Teach
People

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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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We can always do it better.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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