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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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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
Working
Programs
Together
Coaching
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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