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 VALVANOThere are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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 has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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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