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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
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Suffering

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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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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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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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Let your players know that you love them.
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You have to learn to play with what you've got.
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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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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Proper prior planning prevents pitiful poor performance.
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Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.
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We can always do it better.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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