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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.

Jim Valvano

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.
JIM VALVANO

Intelligence Leaving Practice Show Team Yourself
Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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Death Dreams Numb Yourself
Never give up, never ever give up.
JIM VALVANO

Failure Give Up Inspirational One Liner
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.
JIM VALVANO

Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
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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Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
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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Each Day Emotion Enjoyment Laughter Life Moments Myself Precious
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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Activity Day Emotion Life Ourselves Tears Thinking
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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Day Decision Freedom Management Myself Time
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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Cure Foundation Prosper Support Survive Try Yourself
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Believe Father Greatness Himself Myself
Time is very precious to me. I don’t know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people, too.
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End Hope Important Legacy Myself People Time
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Inspirational Ordinary People
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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Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Acceptance Awareness Yourself
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
JIM VALVANO

Give Up Inspirational

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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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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