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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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We can always do it better.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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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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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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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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