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.
JIM VALVANOSpend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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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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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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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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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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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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