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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
Basketball
Worst
Else
Anything
Best
Better
Nba
Coaching

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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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