Best Of | 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
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Our “Best of” week continues with a quote from the late Jim Valvano, who reminds us that it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, you can accomplish absolutely anything if you have the focus, motivation, and enthusiasm.
Today’s clip is from the audio program Secrets of Superachievers available for mp3 download on the Nightingale Conant website.
Learn more about The V Foundation for Cancer Research at jimmyv.org.
Hosted by Sean Croxton
Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-quote-of-the-day-show-daily-motivational-talks/donations
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Check out the NEW Black Excellence Daily podcast. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, and Amazon.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Every single day in every work of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things, ordinary people, |
| 0:07.6 | Accomplice extraordinary things. |
| 0:09.8 | And that is the quote of the day. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm your host Sean Crox and the Sean Crox and dot com. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you so much for tuning in. |
| 0:44.4 | We are continuing our best of week with the late Jim Vovano. |
| 0:49.2 | If the name doesn't sound familiar, you may have heard of the Jimmy V foundation for cancer |
| 0:54.0 | research. |
| 0:55.0 | You may have seen his SB speech. |
| 0:57.0 | Don't give up. |
| 0:58.0 | Don't ever give up. |
| 0:59.0 | Or you may have seen one of the commercials where his team North Carolina state won the NCAA basketball |
| 1:05.3 | championship and he's just running all over the court. |
| 1:07.6 | He doesn't even know where he's running. |
| 1:09.0 | He just running running all over the place. |
| 1:10.8 | He's just so excited. |
| 1:11.8 | And so today's clip is one that I played. |
| 1:14.4 | Gosh, maybe two years ago and it got so much love and social media and people emailed |
| 1:21.2 | me about it. |
| 1:22.2 | It's just such an emotional talk and it just makes you realize that ordinary people just |
| 1:27.8 | do extraordinary stuff with their lives that it's possible as less brown would say. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sean Croxton, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Sean Croxton and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.