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Don Meyer
Age: 69 †
Born: 1944
Born: December 16
Died: 2014
Died: May 18
Basketball Coach
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Nebraska
Donald Wayne Meyer
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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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Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.
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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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Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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 worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else
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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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Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.
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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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Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.
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If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.
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