Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
JIM VALVANOEvery day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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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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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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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary 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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