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.
JIM VALVANOWe 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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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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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.
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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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