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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
JIM VALVANO

Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
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.
JIM VALVANO

Cry Laughter Special Thinking Yourself
Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
JIM VALVANO

Enjoyment Life Moments Yourself
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.
JIM VALVANO

End Hope Important Legacy Myself People Time
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.
JIM VALVANO

Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
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 VALVANO

Cure Foundation Prosper Support Survive Try Yourself
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
JIM VALVANO

Important Myself See Smile
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
JIM VALVANO

Failure Give Up Rejection Success
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.
JIM VALVANO

Change Expectation Future Life Moments Uncertain
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.
JIM VALVANO

Myself People Sick Willing
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
JIM VALVANO

Day Decision Freedom Management Myself Time
It’s so important to know where you are.
JIM VALVANO

Awareness Important Known Yourself
Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANO

Death Dreams Numb Yourself
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)
JIM VALVANO

Appearance Difference Handsome Money Yourself
A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
JIM VALVANO

Big Himself Person Spiritual
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.
JIM VALVANO

Stink Tech Thinking Trust Yourself

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