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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Jim Valvano

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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Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
People 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.
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Courage Family Mom Myself People Wife
You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Dreams Goal Hard Work Willing
Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Dreams Inspirational Vision
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Important Myself See Smile
I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Family Important Myself Talk
It’s so important to know where you are.
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Awareness Important Known Yourself
Never give up, never ever give up.
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Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Answer Assistant Himself Secret Silence
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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Intelligence Leaving Practice Show Team Yourself
All really successful coaches have a system.
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Coach Success System Teacher
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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Cure Foundation Prosper Support Survive Try Yourself
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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Myself People Sick Willing
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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Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Finding Human Limitation Possible Yourself
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Cry Day Laughter Thinking Yourself

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

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