It’s so important to know where you are.
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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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Nothing 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.
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I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
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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.
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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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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.
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Why shouldn’t I milk it? We’re an agricultural institution.
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Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that’s one heckuva full day.
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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 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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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.
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