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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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I 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.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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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 greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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