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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.

Jim Valvano

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.
JIM VALVANO

End Hope Important Legacy Myself People 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
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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Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
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
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
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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Blessing Myself Office People
All really successful coaches have a system.
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Coach Success System Teacher
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.
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Help Important Love Money Need Save Yourself
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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Appearance Difference Handsome Money Yourself
Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
JIM VALVANO

Cry Day Laughter Oneself Thinking
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.
JIM VALVANO

Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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God Moments Myself Thankful
Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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Change Expectation Future Life Moments Uncertain
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
Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANO

Death Dreams Numb Yourself
The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
JIM VALVANO

Believe Children Greatness Yourself

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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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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