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 VALVANOI can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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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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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Never give up, never ever give 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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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