In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
JIM VALVANOWe should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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