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.
JIM VALVANOKnow where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
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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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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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