A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
JIM VALVANOI talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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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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