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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
Coaching
Basketball
Program
Decision
Comes
Made
Long

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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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We can always do it better.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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