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.
JIM VALVANOIt’s so important to know where you are.
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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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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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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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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