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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.

Jim Valvano

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
JIM VALVANO

Accomplishment Motivational Perseverance Walk
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.
JIM VALVANO

End Hope Important Legacy Myself People Time
I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It’s more important.
JIM VALVANO

Death Life Myself Statement Wrong
Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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Forever Optimism Ourselves Pessimistic Team
We 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 VALVANO

Activity Day Emotion Life Ourselves Tears Thinking
Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
JIM VALVANO

Cry Laughter Thinking Time
Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
JIM VALVANO

Death Dreams Numb Yourself
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.
JIM VALVANO

Ability Heart Mindset Myself Physical Touch
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
JIM VALVANO

Failure Give Up Rejection Success
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
JIM VALVANO

Important Myself See Smile
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.
JIM VALVANO

Hope Myself Place Position Time
All really successful coaches have a system.
JIM VALVANO

Coach Success System Teacher
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 VALVANO

Cancer Change Fight Myself People Time
The 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 VALVANO

Appearance Difference Handsome Money Yourself
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.
JIM VALVANO

Forever Honor Myself Respect Treasure
Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
JIM VALVANO

Acceptance Awareness Yourself

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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