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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.

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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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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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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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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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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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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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