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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.

Jim Valvano

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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Appearance Difference Handsome Money Yourself
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Blessing Myself Office People
Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
Never give up, never ever give up.
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Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Each Day Emotion Enjoyment Laughter Life Moments Myself Precious
All really successful coaches have a system.
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Coach Success System Teacher
I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Family Important Myself Talk
Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
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Dreams Goal Greatness Hope Motivational Vision Yourself
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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God Moments Myself Thankful
Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Cry Day Laughter Oneself Thinking
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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Stink Tech Thinking Trust Yourself
You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Dreams Goal Hard Work Willing
Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
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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Courage Family Mom Myself People Wife
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Failure Give Up Rejection Success
Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Dreams Inspirational Vision

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