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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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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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Every day you teach attitude.
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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 cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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