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Let your players know that you love them.

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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Discipline and demand without being demeaning.
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Shared suffering makes a team a team.
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To those who much has been given, much is expected.
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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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Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.
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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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Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits.
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The key to success is to do the next right thing right.
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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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Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.
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We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.
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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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Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker
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