American basketball player and coach Jim Valvano was a legendary coach at North Carolina State University. He won a number of trophies during his career there. You’ll find just the proper amount of motivation to chase after your professional dreams and realize your full potential in these Jim Valvano quotes.
Awesome Motivational Quotes by Jim Valvano
- A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
- ‘Everybody has to have a personal philosophy of how you live your life.’
- ‘Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.’
- ‘Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say.’
- ‘You plus motivation equals success.’
- Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, motivation, and without perseverance.
- 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 them.
- 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.
- There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
- ‘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.’
- ‘To me, there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laughter. Number two is to think — spend some time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears.’
- ‘We win or the alumni bash in our teeth.’
- ‘Know where you have been, where you are now, and where you want to be.’
- ‘Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.’
- ‘I am an ordinary guy, I want to do extraordinary things in my life and I believe that.’
- ‘My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in me.’
- ‘That’s me, I don’t like when people ask me how many weeks off we get before we start to work, that’s me. Maybe I am wrong but that’s just how I am.’
- ‘I’m 21 years old and the kids I’m coaching are 19 and I’m going to be the greatest coach in the world. ‘
- ‘I love what I do. Very fortunate. Enthusiasm. Give yourself an enthusiasm check.’
- ‘Motivation to me vis three things. Three things I try to do each day.’
Jim Valvano Speech Quotes
- ‘How many people do you know who’ve had their dream come true? You’re looking at one.’
- ‘It’s so important to know where you are. And I know where I am right now.’
- ‘I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.’
- ‘How enthusiastic are you every day, every day in your profession?’
- ‘I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.’
- ‘To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.’
- ‘Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream.’
- ‘And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.’
- ‘Family, religion Rutgers basketball. All eyes were on me. I got it.’
- ‘It’s so important to know where you are.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first steps to succeeding.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘But try if you can 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.’
- ‘And I’m going to work as hard as I can for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we’ll have some cures and some breakthroughs.’
- ‘I’m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!’
- If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. If you do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
- Every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
- 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.
- Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
- You need to have a dream, and a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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