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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
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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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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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