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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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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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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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