My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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