Cancer can take away all of my physical... | Jim Valvano

Soul Mind

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

Quote of the Day

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

- Ben Vereen

Other quotes by Jim Valvano

End Time Will People

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

Family

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

- Jim Valvano

Research Work Want

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

Dream

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

- Jim Valvano

Life

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

Thinking Trust

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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