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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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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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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: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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