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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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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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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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We can always do it better.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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