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.
JIM VALVANOMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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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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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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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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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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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