Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
JIM VALVANOEach day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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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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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 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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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