Never give up, never ever give up.
JIM VALVANOI 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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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.
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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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.
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