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.
JIM VALVANOAll really successful coaches have a system.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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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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