Jim Valvano Quotes

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• Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
• All really successful coaches have a system.
• A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.
• Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
• Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.
• 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.…
• There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.
• 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…
• 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…
• Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
• It's so important to know where you are.
• 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…
• We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)
• 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…
• If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
• Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?
• 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…
• Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
• You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
• Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

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