Don Meyer Quotes About Coaching
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Only run special plays for special players; find plays that fit your players.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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When you watch the game, be a student of the game.
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Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.
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Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.
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Quickness more than anything else should determine your amount of pressure on the ball.
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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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The team is an extension of the coach.
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When the legs go, the heart and the head follow quickly behind.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.
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Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.
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Good shooters take the shots; best shooters take most of the shots.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize.
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Play off your great player... great teams have a go-to player and they play off of him.
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Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.
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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.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.
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