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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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Anything
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Nba
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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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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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