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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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