An excerpt from basketball coach Jimmy Valvano’s acceptance speech for the Arthur Ashe Courage & Humanitarian Award on March 4, 1993.
“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is to 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…
Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever. I thank you and God bless all of you.”
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePXlkqkFH6s
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Thanks for posting that, Lara. Jimmy V's speech sure made me do all 3 in a span of 10 minutes…
Well said, Daphne!
I missed this speech the first time around but was delighted to have been introduced to it in a great book I'm reading: “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs”. It's really sad that most of us become prolific when faced with adversity – but I think we can all learn from Jimmy Valvano.
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