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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
Teach
People
Deal
Deals
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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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We can always do it better.
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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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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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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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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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