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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.

Jim Valvano

I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
JIM VALVANO

Family Important Myself Talk
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.
JIM VALVANO

Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Important Myself See Smile
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
JIM VALVANO

Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
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.
JIM VALVANO

Help Important Love Money Need Save Yourself
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.
JIM VALVANO

Business Game Pass Run Yourself
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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Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
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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Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Accomplishment Day Inspirational Ordinary People Walk
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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Courage Family Mom Myself People Wife
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.
JIM VALVANO

End Hope Important Legacy Myself People Time
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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Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
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 VALVANO

Dreams Goal Greatness Hope Motivational Vision Yourself
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Believe Father Greatness Himself Myself
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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God Moments Myself Thankful
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
JIM VALVANO

Inspirational Ordinary People

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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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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