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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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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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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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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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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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