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.
JIM VALVANONow, 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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