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.
JIM VALVANONothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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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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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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Don’t give up. Don’t 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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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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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