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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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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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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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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 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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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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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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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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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