I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
JIM VALVANOAre you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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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 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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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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