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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
People
Nba
Basketball
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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We can always do it better.
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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