Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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 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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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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 talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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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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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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