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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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We can always do it better.
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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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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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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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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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