You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
JIM VALVANOWhy shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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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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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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