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.
JIM VALVANOThere are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
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