Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
JIM VALVANONothing 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva 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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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me 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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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But 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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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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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