Jim Valvano Quotes
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
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The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you're ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
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We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.
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But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
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Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Never give up...never ever give up.
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Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it.
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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.
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I talked about my family, my family's so important.
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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?
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Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
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No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
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Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.
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I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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It's so important to know where you are.
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To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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