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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.

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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Let your players know that you love them.
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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 can always do it better.
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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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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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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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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