If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
JIM VALVANOIf you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
JIM VALVANOIn every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
JIM VALVANOAll really successful coaches have a system.
JIM VALVANOWe should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.
JIM VALVANONothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
JIM VALVANONothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
JIM VALVANONow, 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.
JIM VALVANOMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
JIM VALVANOConceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
JIM VALVANOCancer 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 VALVANOIf you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
JIM VALVANOWe 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.
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.
JIM VALVANOI 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.
JIM VALVANOThe 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)
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.
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