I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
JIM VALVANOWe have a very intelligent team. I’ve had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you’re going to have a closed practice and eight guys don’t show up.
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But try if you can to support, whether it’s AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
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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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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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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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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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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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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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It’s so important to know where you are.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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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