My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
JIM VALVANOTake time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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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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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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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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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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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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