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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything 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
Worst
Else
Anything
Best
Better
Nba
Coaching
Basketball

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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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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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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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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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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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To be a team, you must be a family.
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We can always do it better.
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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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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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