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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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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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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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There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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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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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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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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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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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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