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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

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
Basketball
Happy
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Defense involves three things: courage, energy, intelligence.
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Winning a postseason game is like winning five regular season games. There is just no feeling like it. Everything is magnified. Every free throw, turnover, shot and play.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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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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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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