You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
JIM VALVANOAnd if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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