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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.

Jim Valvano

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Jim Valvano
Age: 47 †
Born: 1946
Born: March 10
Died: 1993
Died: April 28
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Queens
New York
James Thomas Anthony Valvano
Jimmy V
Within
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Humans
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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.
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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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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 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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.
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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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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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