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To those who much has been given, much is expected.

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
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Basketball
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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