Collected Meditations
Showing 26 quotesWe 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
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
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
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
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
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
I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.— Jim Valvano
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
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
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
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.— Jim Valvano
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Smile
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
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Trust
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
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Business