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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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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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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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