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.
JIM VALVANOConceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me 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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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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