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.
JIM VALVANOWe 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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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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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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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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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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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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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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