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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
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Let your players know that you love them.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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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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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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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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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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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