Jim Valvano Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  People, Important, Ends

  Jim Valvano's ESPY Awards Speech, www.jimmyv.org. March 4, 1993.

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• I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thank God, Moments

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Dream, Nba

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• We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Children, Important

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

  Jim Valvano

  Laughter, Each Day, Emotion

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Attitude, Team, Pessimistic

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• Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Sports, Moments

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, North Carolina

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• Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Blessed

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Mom, Daughter

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• 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

  Basketball, Differences, Noses

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Cancer, Support

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Milk, Institutions

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• I talked about my family, my family's so important.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, My Family

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that's one heckuva full day.

  Jim Valvano

  Thinking, Laughing, Each Day

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Cancer, Fighting, People

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• It's so important to know where you are.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, Where You Are

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• All really successful coaches have a system.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Team, Intelligent

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• We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Winning, Teeth

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Cancer, Years, People

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Giving, Looks

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

  Jim Valvano

  Smile, Basketball, Giving

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

  Jim Valvano

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Forever, Honor

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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