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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else

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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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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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There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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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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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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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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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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We can always do it better.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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