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.
JIM VALVANOKnow where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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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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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary 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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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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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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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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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