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)
JIM VALVANOOther people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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