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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
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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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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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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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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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We can always do it better.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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