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Today I want everyone to watch this 1993 ESPY Speech from Jim Valvano.

It’s a must watch for all.

The fame coach had his life cut cancer very shortly after giving this speech.

In his speech he shares stories about his time coaching, fighting cancer, his motto for life, and pushes to fundraise for cancer research.

There are so many quotable portions but this attached one is my favorite.

“And when people say to me, “How do you get through life?” Each day’s the same thing. To me, there are three things we all should do every day. If we do this every day of our life, you’re going to … What a wonderful … Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think, you should spend some time in thought. And number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears. Could be happiness or joy, but think about it. 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.”

Thank you for watching and reading. I want to leave you all with this:

“And its motto is, “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” And that’s what I’m going to try to do every minute that I have left. I will thank God for the day and the moment I have. And if you see me smile and maybe give me a hug cause that’s important to me, too.”