It’s so important to know where you are.
JIM VALVANODon’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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 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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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