Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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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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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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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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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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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