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Shared suffering makes a team a team.

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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Shared
Team
Suffering

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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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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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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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We can always do it better.
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