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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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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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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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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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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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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