No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
JIM VALVANOMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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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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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
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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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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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