My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
JIM VALVANOTo find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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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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