Jim Valvano Quotes

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• We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Numbers

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• Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

  Jim Valvano

  Perseverance, Motivation, Enthusiasm

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  In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

  Jim Valvano

  People, Ordinary, Accomplish

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• 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

  Life Changing, Moments, Uncertain

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• 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

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Sports, Giving Up

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

  56 Copy quote

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Dream

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

  89 Copy quote
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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Encouraging, Basketball, Uplifting

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

  100 Copy quote

• There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Champion, Up To You

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

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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• A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  54 Copy quote

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Dream, Giving Up

  57 Copy quote

• 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

  Trust, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  71 Copy quote

• Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be

  Jim Valvano

  Want, Where You Are, Knows

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• The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.

  Jim Valvano

  Children, Believe, Giving

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• To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.

  Jim Valvano

  Dream, Laughter, Hard Work

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

  55 Copy quote

• Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it.

  Jim Valvano

  Accomplish

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• Never give up...never ever give up.

  Jim Valvano

  Giving Up, Giving, Never Giving Up

  38 Copy quote

• We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Children, Important

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

  7 Copy quote

• You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.

  Jim Valvano

  Dream, Hard Work, Goal

  37 Copy quote

• Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

  Jim Valvano

  People, Ordinary, Extras

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Life, Basketball, Laughter

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

  43 Copy quote

• 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

  Basketball, Important, North Carolina

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Running, Business

  33 Copy quote

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