The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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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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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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