If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
JIM VALVANOSpend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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