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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.

Jim Valvano

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.
JIM VALVANO

Intelligence Leaving Practice Show Team Yourself
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Failure Give Up Rejection Success
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Blessing Myself Office People
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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Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Answer Assistant Himself Secret Silence
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Inspirational Ordinary People
You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Dreams Goal Hard Work Willing
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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Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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Day Decision Freedom Management Myself Time
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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Appearance Difference Handsome Money Yourself
Never give up, never ever give up.
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Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Finding Human Limitation Possible Yourself
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Cry Day Laughter Thinking Yourself
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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Change Expectation Future Life Moments Uncertain
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Give Up Inspirational

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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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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