Thursday, April 26, 2012

Coach V

In the previous post I quoted a college basketball coach so here is another one from the former coach of the N.C. State Wolfpack [REMEMBER THE 1983 FINALS?? Probably not.... But I do:-)] Jimmy Volvano. He later got sick with cancer and there was a whole write up about him in Sports Illustrated where he admitted that sports is much too overrated and he regretted much of his life. He died at 47.

From a speech he gave shortly before he died.


"To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. 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."