In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
JIM VALVANOI 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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I’ll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I’ll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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