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.
JIM VALVANOI 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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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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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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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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