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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach

Don Meyer

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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
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Nebraska
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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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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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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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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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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In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.
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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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