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Jim Valvano

(1946–1993) Basketball Player

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Jim Valvano was a basketball player, best known for Valvano.

Quick Facts About Jim Valvano

Born: March 10, 1946
Died: April 28, 1993
Profession: Basketball Player
Notable works: Valvano

About Jim Valvano

James Thomas Anthony Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster. Valvano had a successful coaching career with multiple schools, culminating at NC State. While the head coach at NC State, his team won the 1983 NCAA Division I men's basketball title against improbable odds. Valvano is remembered for his ecstatic celebration after winning the national championship game against the heavily favored Houston Cougars.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Jim Valvano · Page 2

It's so important to know where you are.

Basketball

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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

Basketball coach

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Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Dream

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

Basketball

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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

Basketball

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To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number…

Every day

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All really successful coaches have a system.

Basketball

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Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's…

Cancer

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

Dream

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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…

Back doors

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“I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna…

Cancer

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

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…

Basketball

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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,…

Aids

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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…

Cancer

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Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

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“To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think -- spend some…

Every day

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

Each day

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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…

Cry

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We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

Alumni

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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…

Basketball

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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

God

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Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person…

Anything can happen

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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…

Arthur

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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…

Ability

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