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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

Don Meyer

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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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Keys
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Next
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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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.
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We had 10 turnovers tonight. Each one gets worse as you go. It is like prior arrests: the 10th one may not have been that bad, but when you have had nine prior ones, it looks pretty bad.
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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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The only thing success should do is make you more humble.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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