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.
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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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