Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
JIM VALVANOPeople 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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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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