The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
JIM VALVANOEnjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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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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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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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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We 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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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.
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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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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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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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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who’s right here too.
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Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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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.
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