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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.

Jim Valvano

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
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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Hope Myself Place Position Time
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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God Moments Myself Thankful
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
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Cry Day Laughter Thinking Yourself
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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Activity Day Emotion Life Ourselves Tears Thinking
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
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.
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Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
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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Intelligence Leaving Practice Show Team Yourself
Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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Death Dreams Numb Yourself
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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Myself People Sick Willing
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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Dreams Goal Greatness Hope Motivational Vision Yourself
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
It’s so important to know where you are.
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Awareness Important Known Yourself
The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Believe Children Greatness Yourself
Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Agriculture Institution Myself
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
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Give Up Inspirational
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Blessing Myself Office People
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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Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
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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Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Accomplishment Day Inspirational Ordinary People Walk
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
Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Emotion Laughter Thinking Yourself
Never give up, never ever give up.
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Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Enjoyment Life Moments Yourself
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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Day Decision Freedom Management Myself Time

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.

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