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

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.
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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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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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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Every day you teach attitude.
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