A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
JIM VALVANOI’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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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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 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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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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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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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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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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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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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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We have a very intelligent team. I’ve had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you’re going to have a closed practice and eight guys don’t show up.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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