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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.

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
Basketball
Enemy
Great
Good

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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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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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