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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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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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Every day you teach attitude.
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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team 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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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