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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.

Jim Valvano

Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
JIM VALVANO

Acceptance Awareness Yourself
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.
JIM VALVANO

Dreams Enthusiasm Goal Life Success Willing Yourself
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.
JIM VALVANO

Stink Tech Thinking Trust Yourself
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
JIM VALVANO

Failure Give Up Rejection Success
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
JIM VALVANO

Blessing Myself Office People
Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
JIM VALVANO

Emotion Laughter Thinking Yourself
Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
JIM VALVANO

Cry Day Laughter Oneself Thinking
Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
JIM VALVANO

Answer Assistant Himself Secret Silence
I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
JIM VALVANO

Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
JIM VALVANO

Accomplishment Day Inspirational Ordinary People Walk
To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
JIM VALVANO

Finding Human Limitation Possible Yourself
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
JIM VALVANO

Day Decision Freedom Management Myself Time
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.
JIM VALVANO

Intelligence Leaving Practice Show Team Yourself
Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANO

Death Dreams Numb Yourself
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.
JIM VALVANO

Cry Laughter Special Thinking Yourself
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 VALVANO

Dreams Goal Greatness Hope Motivational Vision Yourself

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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