Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
JIM VALVANOTo find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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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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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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We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
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Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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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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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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