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.
JIM VALVANOOther people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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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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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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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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