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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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Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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