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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.

Jim Valvano

Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
JIM VALVANO

Emotion Laughter Thinking Yourself
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
JIM VALVANO

Failure Give Up Rejection Success
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
JIM VALVANO

Each Day Emotion Enjoyment Laughter Life Moments Myself Precious
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.
JIM VALVANO

Dreams Enthusiasm Goal Life Success Willing Yourself
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
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
JIM VALVANO

God Moments Myself Thankful
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 VALVANO

Business Game Pass Run Yourself
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
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
JIM VALVANO

Inspirational Ordinary People
All really successful coaches have a system.
JIM VALVANO

Coach Success System Teacher
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
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
JIM VALVANO

Believe Father Greatness Himself Myself
To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
JIM VALVANO

Finding Human Limitation Possible Yourself
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
JIM VALVANO

Cry Laughter Thinking Time
Never give up, never ever give up.
JIM VALVANO

Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
JIM VALVANO

Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk

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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