Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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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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I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in 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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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