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 VALVANOConceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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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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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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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