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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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Suffering

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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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We sure didn't play great, but we played hard. And I can live with that.
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If you want to thank me, go do something for somebody else
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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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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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Anytime you get an award as a coach, you've got to be the ultimate fool to think it wasn't your assistant coaches and all the players responsible for the award.
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To be a team, you must be a family.
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Make the practices like games and the games like practices.
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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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We can always do it better.
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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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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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It doesn't matter where you coach, it matters why you coach.
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You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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