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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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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 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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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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