You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
JIM VALVANOTime 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
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