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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.

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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
Great
Played
Basketball
Sure
Didn
Live
Play
Hard

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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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