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

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
Played
Basketball
Sure
Didn
Live
Play
Hard
Great

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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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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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Let your players know that you love them.
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We can always do it better.
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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