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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.

Jim Valvano

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.
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Dreams Enthusiasm Goal Life Success Willing Yourself
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Give Up Inspirational
To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Finding Human Limitation Possible Yourself
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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Activity Day Emotion Life Ourselves Tears Thinking
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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Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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Business Game Pass Run Yourself
The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
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Appearance Difference Handsome Money Yourself
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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Help Important Love Money Need Save Yourself
Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Dreams Inspirational Vision
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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End Hope Important Legacy Myself People Time
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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Dreams Goal Greatness Hope Motivational Vision Yourself
Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Enjoyment Life Moments Yourself
All really successful coaches have a system.
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Coach Success System Teacher
The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Believe Children Greatness Yourself
Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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Change Expectation Future Life Moments Uncertain
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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Each Day Emotion Enjoyment Laughter Life Moments Myself Precious
Never give up, never ever give up.
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Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Cry Laughter Thinking Time
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Believe Father Greatness Himself Myself
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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Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
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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Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Cry Day Laughter Thinking Yourself
It’s so important to know where you are.
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Awareness Important Known Yourself
Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Agriculture Institution Myself
You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Dreams Goal Hard Work Willing
Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Answer Assistant Himself Secret Silence

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