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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.

Jim Valvano

We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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Help Important Love Money Need Save Yourself
A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Big Himself Person Spiritual
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Dreams Inspirational Vision
Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Believe Children Greatness Yourself
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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Stink Tech Thinking Trust Yourself
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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Change Expectation Future Life Moments Uncertain
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Cry Laughter Thinking Time
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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End Hope Important Legacy Myself People Time
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Believe Father Greatness Himself Myself
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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Each Day Emotion Enjoyment Laughter Life Moments Myself Precious
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Blessing Myself Office People
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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Appearance Difference Handsome Money Yourself
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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Ability Heart Mindset Myself Physical Touch
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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Courage Family Mom Myself People Wife

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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