Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANOThe difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you’re ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
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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.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.
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