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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

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
Troops
Basketball
Ends
Important
Marching
Nba

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We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
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Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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