Jim Valvano Quotes About Basketball
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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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We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.
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But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
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Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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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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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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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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I talked about my family, my family's so important.
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Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
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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.
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
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Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.
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It's so important to know where you are.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
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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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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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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.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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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.
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