If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
JIM VALVANOWe 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give 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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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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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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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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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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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