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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

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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Believe Children Greatness Yourself
Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Acceptance Awareness Yourself
Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Agriculture Institution Myself
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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Hope Myself Place Position Time
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
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Inspirational Ordinary People
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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Myself People Sick Willing
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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Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
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
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
A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Big Himself Person Spiritual
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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Ability Heart Mindset Myself Physical Touch
You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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Dreams Goal Hard Work Willing
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
JIM VALVANO

Important Myself See Smile

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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