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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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We can always do it better.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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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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