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Let your players know that you love them.

Don Meyer

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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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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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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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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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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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 aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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 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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