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You have to learn to play with what you've got.

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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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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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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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