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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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When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
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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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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.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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 golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
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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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