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 VALVANOAll really successful coaches have a system.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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