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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

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
Success
Thing
Make
Humble
Basketball

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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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