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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1057 | Jim Valvano: “Every Single Day, in Every Walk of Life, Ordinary People do Extraordinary Things.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

How about a Throwback Monday episode? Today, we turn back the clock to one of our most popular talks ever, as the late Coach Jim Valvano lays out his keys for going from ordinary to extraordinary.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo, today's QOTS, every single day in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary

0:09.0

things.

0:10.0

Here we go.

0:37.0

Welcome back to the QOTS, the day show I'm your host, Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and

0:41.1

.com.

0:42.1

We got the late, the great North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano on the

0:48.4

show today.

0:49.4

What I thought I'd do this week is do things a little bit backwards because why not?

0:53.9

We're going to do throwback Thursday on throwback Monday and we're going to have Steve Harvey

0:58.8

on a Thursday and Ed Myled on a Friday.

1:00.7

I don't know why I just want to change things up just a little bit.

1:03.9

So what we're going to do today is turn back that clock to episode number 32.

1:09.3

I think this was like 2017.

1:12.7

I believe way back in the day and the coach is going to lay out the keys for going from

1:18.4

ordinary to extraordinary.

1:20.2

And he's going to talk about how you can accomplish anything you want.

1:26.6

Here's the coach.

1:27.6

I want to talk to you about how I do my job, how I do my job in a competitive field,

1:35.3

how each day I try to beat the North Carolina State and everybody else.

1:39.9

How I can do that?

1:40.9

I think everybody has to have a personal philosophy of how you live your life.

1:45.6

Here's my very simply point.

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