Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
JIM VALVANOEach day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
More 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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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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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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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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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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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