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.
JIM VALVANOAre you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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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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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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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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Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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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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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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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a 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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