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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
Study
Teach
People
Deal
Deals

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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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