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.
JIM VALVANONo 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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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We have a very intelligent team. I’ve had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you’re going to have a closed practice and eight guys don’t show up.
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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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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
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We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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The 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)
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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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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
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