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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 Valvano

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 VALVANO

Cry Laughter Special Thinking Yourself
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
JIM VALVANO

Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
JIM VALVANO

Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
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 VALVANO

Intelligence Leaving Practice Show Team Yourself
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
JIM VALVANO

God Moments Myself Thankful
Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
JIM VALVANO

Emotion Laughter Thinking Yourself
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.
JIM VALVANO

Dreams Goal Greatness Hope Motivational Vision Yourself
I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
JIM VALVANO

Family Important Myself Talk
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.
JIM VALVANO

Cure Foundation Prosper Support Survive Try Yourself
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
JIM VALVANO

Cry Laughter Thinking Time
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
JIM VALVANO

Blessing Myself Office People
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
JIM VALVANO

Cry Day Laughter Thinking Yourself
The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
JIM VALVANO

Believe Children Greatness Yourself
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 VALVANO

Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
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.
JIM VALVANO

Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
JIM VALVANO

Day Decision Freedom Management Myself Time

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.

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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.

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