I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
JIM VALVANOKnow where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Never give up, never 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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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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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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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 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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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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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