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 VALVANOEach day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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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 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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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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