Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
JIM VALVANONow 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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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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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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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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