Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
JIM VALVANOSpend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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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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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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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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