It’s so important to know where you are.
JIM VALVANONow 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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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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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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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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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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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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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