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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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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Now, 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.
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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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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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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
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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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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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