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Jim Valvano
American
Coach
Born:
Mar 10
,
1946
Died:
Apr 28
,
1993
Important
Life
Me
People
Will
You
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano
Me
Gift
Father
Greatest Gift
Father's Day
Gave
Give
Could
He
Another
Greatest
Person
Anyone
Believed
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.
Jim Valvano
Day
You
Think
Seven
Laugh
Something
Something Special
Week
Days
Cry
Going
Heck
Full
Special
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
Jim Valvano
God
Day
Thank God
Will
For The Day
Thank
Moment
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
Soul
Heart
Cancer
Mind
Ability
Physical
Touch
My Soul
Take
Cannot
Away
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.
Jim Valvano
Life
Work
You
Enthusiasm
Think
Willing
Dream
How
Go
Goal
Wanna
Where
Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
Jim Valvano
You
Dream
Dreamer
Know
Dead
How
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
Jim Valvano
Smile
Me
You
Important
Hug
Too
See
Give
Give Me
Maybe
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Jim Valvano
Me
You
Trust
Bad Things
Think
Thinking
Gave
Bad
About
Give
Give Me
Could
He
Well
Him
Course
Said
Stink
Asked
Foul
Technical
Things
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
Jim Valvano
Life
Day
You
Emotions
Thought
Laughter
Enjoy
Spend
Some
Got
Precious
Get
Going
Just
Urge
Your
Moments
Each
Each Day
Thing
Last
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
Time
Me
People
Will
Important
Too
Other
Say
Hopefully
Would
Some
Some Things
Something
Like
Know
Said
How
How Much
Left
End
Very
Precious
Much
Things
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.
Jim Valvano
You
Business
Matter
Will
Run
Someone
Pass
How
Won
Place
Games
Many
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
Time
Whatever
Others
Spend
Would
Able
Some
Give
Like
Know
Look
Am
Left
Maybe
Wanna
Where
Now
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
You
Honor
Will
Breath
Tell
Something
Mentioned
Arthur
Forever
Same
Certainly
Even
Treasure
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
You
Try
Cancer
AIDS
Else
Dreaded
Someone
Support
Prosper
Cured
Survive
Disease
Whether
Might
Foundation
Actually
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
Work
Fight
Cancer
Year
Research
Think
Recipient
Back
Out
Hopefully
Some
Give
Like
Brains
Arthur
Cures
Going
Maybe
Want
Again
Breakthroughs
Next
Hard
Next Year
Here
I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.
Jim Valvano
Father
Husband
Absolute
Terrible
Maniac
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