I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.
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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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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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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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All really successful coaches have a system.
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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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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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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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