Jim Valvano on accomplishment
Jim Valvano49 quotes“Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.”
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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.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano 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.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano All really successful coaches have a system.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano 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.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano 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 ValvanoJim Valvano You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano Never give up, never ever give up.
Jim ValvanoJim Valvano 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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Even with broken wings, she dares to fly. And even with a broken heart, she dares to love.
Divya khandalDivya khandal And I refuse to apologize until the very end for the way that I feel – my feelings are valid too.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Contemplate your own mortality daily, then see how much we must change.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres We parted sadly, like children in the street on a pleasant june afternoon.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor And what shall I call you? Yours. In this life, the ones before, and all others thereafter.
Alexandra MichelleAlexandra Michelle If I could go back to a time I’d be with you. And I’d thank you again for almost being the healing to my heart.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I was a living breathing nightmare and he was my favorite dream catcher.
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Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
Gordon B. HinckleyGordon B. Hinckley If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn CarterRosalynn Carter I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
Golda MeirGolda Meir It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s.
Grant CardoneGrant Cardone No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Think back 5 years ago. Think of where you’re at today. Think ahead 5 years and what you want to accomplish. Be Unstoppable.
Dwayne JohnsonDwayne Johnson Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.
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