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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

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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Dreams Enthusiasm Goal Life Success Willing Yourself
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Inspirational Ordinary People
Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Enjoyment Life Moments Yourself
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Accomplishment Day Inspirational Ordinary People Walk
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Give Up Inspirational
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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End Hope Important Legacy Myself People Time
Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Emotion Laughter Thinking Yourself
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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Dreams Goal Greatness Hope Motivational Vision Yourself
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
All really successful coaches have a system.
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Coach Success System Teacher
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
Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Answer Assistant Himself Secret Silence
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
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.
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Business Game Pass Run Yourself
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Failure Give Up Rejection Success
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
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Cry Laughter Thinking Time
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
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Important Myself See Smile
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
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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Courage Family Mom Myself People Wife
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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Stink Tech Thinking Trust Yourself
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Agriculture Institution Myself
A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Big Himself Person Spiritual
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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Appearance Difference Handsome Money Yourself
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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