Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
JIM VALVANOI 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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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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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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