Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANOConceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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 greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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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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