Don Meyer Quotes

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• Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team…
• 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,…
• We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
• Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.
• There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.
• Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
• 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),…
• We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
• If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.
• I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
• We can always do it better.
• As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
• Have character, don't be one.
• Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
• 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…
• The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
• When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
• In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
• 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…
• 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…

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