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Shared suffering makes a team a team.

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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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Team
Suffering
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Only run special plays for special players find plays that fit your players.
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Every day you teach attitude.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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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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Administrators are like pigs don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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You aren't going to win championships unless you make layups and free throws.
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If a farmer and his family can get up at 5:30 every morning to milk cows, surly we can get up at that time to practice basketball.
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We can always do it better.
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The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.
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You build your program from the ideas of great coaches.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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