Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
JIM VALVANOPeople 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.
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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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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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There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It’s up to you to decide what to do with them.
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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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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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You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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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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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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