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.
JIM VALVANOThere are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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’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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