Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
JIM VALVANOIn every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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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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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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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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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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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