Jim Valvano Quotes

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.

Jim Valvano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: coach
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 10, 1946 - April 28, 1993

Topics

TrustMeThinkThinkingYouBad

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.

Jim Walsh

BelieveSecurityCrisisSystem

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

Melissa McCarthy

SisterSmallCalmTragedyOnlyVery

As great of a player as Yao was, he was kind and patient with everybody. He wasn't trying to feed an image or cultivate a brand or manipulate a public persona.

Jeff Van Gundy

GreatBrandTryingKindImageFeed

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

Steven Wright

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I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Ronnie Spector

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My mother died when I was 17, and I moved in with my dad to make a 12-month pig's ear of retaking my A-levels.

Robert Webb

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Being on the Intelligence Committee made me more of a hawk.

Mike Quigley

IntelligenceMeMoreCommitteeHawk

Trump tapped into a lot of middle-class and working-class disillusion with the political establishment and into economic worries and resentments that ballooned in the wake of the 2008 financial crash.

Michiko Kakutani

FinancialPoliticalEconomicTrump

This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.

Michael McCaul

WinningStrategyDefeatNeedPolicy

After I finished my degree in India in 1980, I came to the U.S. to get a master's, and I was teaching quantum physics to freshmen. As I got my bearings as to what goes on in labs, I understood that to teach, you have to learn.

Dinesh Paliwal

LearnYouPhysicsIndiaTeachGet

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Chuck Yeager

GrowPushYouBackKnowWant

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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