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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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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
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When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of golf. You want a guy who is doing it all the time and is always reading and learning about the most recent techniques.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
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When you get to be my age, you don't buy green bananas because you may not be around to eat them.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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