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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
Wayne
Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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Suffering
Messes
Everyone
Coaching
Running
Shared
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Runs
Wells
Mess
Well
Basketball
Benefits

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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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We can always do it better.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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 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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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you 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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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