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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
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Hard
Great
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Basketball
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Live

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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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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Every day you teach attitude.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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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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We can always do it better.
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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 only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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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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