Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANOA person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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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 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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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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