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 VALVANOTime 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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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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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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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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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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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