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.
JIM VALVANOIf you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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We 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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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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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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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 will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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