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Shared suffering makes a team a team.

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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
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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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We can always do it better.
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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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