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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.

Jim Valvano

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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Ability Heart Mindset Myself Physical Touch
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
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
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Give Up Inspirational
Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Cry Day Laughter Oneself Thinking
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Believe Father Greatness Himself Myself
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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Cry Laughter Special Thinking Yourself
Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Cry Laughter Thinking Time
Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Agriculture Institution Myself
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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Myself People Sick Willing
To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Finding Human Limitation Possible Yourself
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Blessing Myself Office People
Never give up, never ever give up.
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Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
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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Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
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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