Don Meyer Quotes - Page 3

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• If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.

  Don Meyer

  Trying, Beaten, Hard

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• The team is an extension of the coach.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Team, Coaching

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• Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Coaching

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• Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

  Don Meyer

  Teaching, Player, Program

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• Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Running, Player

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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.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Player, Thinking

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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.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hard Work, Winter

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• You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Jobs, Pigs

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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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  Basketball, Looks, Tonight

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• You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Children, Nba

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• If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

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  Basketball, Long Ago, Decision

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• Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Heaven

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• Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.

  Don Meyer

  People, Coaching, Use

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• Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.

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  Basketball, Enemy, Good To Great

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• It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.

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  Basketball, Coaching, Matter

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• Shared suffering makes a team a team.

  Don Meyer

  Team, Suffering

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• The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

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  Inspiring, Keys, Next

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• Let your players know that you love them.

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  Player, Knows

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• You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Practice, Games

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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.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Fighting, Might

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• If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Mean, Hands

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• Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

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  Basketball, Not Happy

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• Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Cutting, Player

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• We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Beautiful, Differences

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