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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.

Jim Valvano

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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Hope Myself Place Position Time
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Believe Father Greatness Himself Myself
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Failure Give Up Rejection Success
Never give up, never ever give up.
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Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
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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Dreams Enthusiasm Goal Life Success Willing Yourself
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
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
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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Help Important Love Money Need Save Yourself
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Give Up Inspirational
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
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Accomplishment Day Inspirational Ordinary People Walk
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.
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Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
It’s so important to know where you are.
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Awareness Important Known Yourself
A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Big Himself Person Spiritual
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Cry Day Laughter Thinking Yourself

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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