Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
JIM VALVANOLife changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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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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Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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