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.
JIM VALVANOLife changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.
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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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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)
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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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