Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
JIM VALVANONo 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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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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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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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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Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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