Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
JIM VALVANOBut 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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 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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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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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