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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people

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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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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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We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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