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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
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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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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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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Every day you teach attitude.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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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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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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