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 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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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