All really successful coaches have a system.
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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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