Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
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More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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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 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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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