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 VALVANOAnd if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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.
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.
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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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No matter what business you’re in, you can’t run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn’t matter how many games you’ve won.
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Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.
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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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Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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