Now 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.
JIM VALVANOAll really successful coaches have a system.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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 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.
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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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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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