A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
JIM VALVANOCancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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