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To be a team, you must be a family.

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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Basketball
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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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