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.
JIM VALVANOWe 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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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 talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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