And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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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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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