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.
JIM VALVANOI 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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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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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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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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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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