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Shared suffering makes a team a team.

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
Suffering
Makes
Shared
Team

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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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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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