A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
JIM VALVANOWhy shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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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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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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