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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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Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.
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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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Discover your gift, develop your gift and then give it away every day.
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What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.
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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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It doesn't cost nothing to be nice to people
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There is nothing more important than rebounding... don't just give it lip service.
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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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As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.
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Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.
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Good shooters take the shots best shooters take most of the shots.
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