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.
JIM VALVANOYou need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can’t trust em.
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No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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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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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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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