Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
JIM VALVANONow, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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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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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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