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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

Don Meyer

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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
Program
Decision
Comes
Made
Long
Coaching
Basketball

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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Shared suffering makes a team a 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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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