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It’s so important to know where you are.

Jim Valvano

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
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
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
Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Answer Assistant Himself Secret Silence
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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Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
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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Change Expectation Future Life Moments Uncertain
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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Business Game Pass Run Yourself
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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Cure Foundation Prosper Support Survive Try Yourself
Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Enjoyment Life Moments Yourself
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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Dreams Enthusiasm Goal Life Success Willing Yourself
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
I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Family Important Myself Talk
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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Myself People Sick Willing
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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Intelligence Leaving Practice Show Team Yourself
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Cry Laughter Thinking Time
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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Ability Heart Mindset Myself Physical Touch

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