There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
JIM VALVANONothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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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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