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.
JIM VALVANOOther people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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We 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.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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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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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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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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Other 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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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