I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
JIM VALVANOYou need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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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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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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