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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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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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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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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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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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