American - Coach | March 10, 1946 - April 28, 1993
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
TrustMeThinkThinkingYouBad
What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
GreatnessSeedsAchieveDestruction
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.
TimePeopleMeEndKnowImportant
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.
HopeTimeI AmLookKnowNow
I'm not happy to be here. I'm just happy to be!
HappyHereJust
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.
LifeLoveChildrenMoneyResearch
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.
SupportSurviveFoundationSomeone
I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.
FatherHusbandTerribleManiac
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.
HonorYouTreasureWillSameTell
I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.
EasyBecomeOutOnlyWouldSet
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!
WorkFightResearchThinkYearBack
I talked about my family, my family's so important.
FamilyImportantAboutTalked
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