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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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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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We can always do it better.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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