And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
JIM VALVANOBe a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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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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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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