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.
JIM VALVANOBut 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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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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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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