Every single day in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things, and that is the quote of the day.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and of Sean Crox and dot com. Thank you so much for tuning in. Happy Monday to you.

Today, I've got a good one for you. Last night, actually, like all of yesterday, I was listening to motivational talks, pulling clips for the show, and this particular talk was the very last one that I turned on. It's about 11 o'clock at night. I'm tired. I'm ready to go to bed.

I'm like, let me just listen to like 10 to 15 minutes of this one. And I tell you, I was in bed laughing and clapping my hands. This was such a great talk and the speaker is coach Jim Valvano. And I know of Jim because I'm in the basketball. I love watching basketball college basketball NBA basketball, whatever basketball I will watch it. And he did a speech just before he passed away from bone cancer at the S. B's in 1993. You got to look it up. It's called the

never give up speech. I'll just look that up on YouTube. It's so inspiring. I hadn't heard any of his other talks. And so I turned this one on. And like I said, I was blown away. The stories were just amazing. If you don't know, Jim Valvano, he was the coach of NC State North Carolina State back in 1983 when they won the championship. And nobody thought they were going to win. And there's this video like them winning and him running all over the court. Not sure who to hug. And it's really, really cool. So I hope you get a chance to listen to him.

You get a chance to listen to the entire version or the full length speech that he gave on this is called or it's from the program secrets of super achievers. Again, that secrets of super achievers available over at night and gale.com. But without further ado, I hope you truly enjoy this one. Here's Jim Valvano.

I want to talk to you about how I do my job, how I do my job in a competitive field, how each day I try to beat the Nordic James North Carolinas and everybody else. How am I going to do that? I think everybody has to have a personal philosophy of how you live your life.

Here's mine very simply put you plus motivation equals success. I have that only thing in my locker room. Nothing else in my locker room with that sign. You plus motivation is success. I have it on cards, bookmarks. I have it on everything. It's what it drives. It's a passion. I was 16 years old. I heard the Reverend Bob Richards speak. Remember him, the Wheaties guy that's Kathleen.

He's a young kid. He's a young kid. He's a basketball champion. The Lord must have loved ordinary people because he made so many of us.

Here I am 16. He's a man I respect. The Lord must have loved ordinary people who made so many of us ordinary. You get a little down at 16 when someone's telling him that.

When he said the line that changed my life at 16 that I felt then I'm 41 years old. I've been working 21 years in my business and I feel it the same way today.

He said every single day in every walk of life ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary people accomplish extraordinary things.

I'm a client for the job right now. I'm an ordinary guy. I want to do extraordinary things in my life. I believe that's true. I think that's going to go over.

How do you do that? How do you go from the ordinary to the extraordinary? I think it's the second thing. It's motivation.

The motivation to me is three things. Three things each day I try to do to get myself ready to roll. Some people will say to me, how do you motivate 18-year-old kids?

How do you motivate? I don't do 21 years motivate anybody except each day one person. I get up James, Thomas Anthony, Valvano.

I get a full-time job keeping me up at the level I want. I hope that if I'm there my assistance, my players, everyone would say, that's a full-time job for me.

I'm not a finger pointer. Say, hey, I'm working my, how about you? How come, no, I work each day to get myself there. How motivation, number one, enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson speaking of graduating class at Harvard said nothing great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm. How enthusiastic are you? Every day!

Every day in your profession. I interview people for jobs. I'm very bad. I'm one of the worst coaches to come and say, what's the benefits here?

I don't like that. I've never hired someone who's asked me to do it. One fellow last year said, me, do you have a dental plan? I said, yeah. If we don't win, the alumni kick our teeth in.

That's our good old job. That's it. That's me. I don't like, I don't like when people ask me how many weeks off we get before they start to work. I'd sue speak. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I am.

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