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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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