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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
Nba
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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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We can always do it better.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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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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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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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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