Jim Valvano's Espy Speech

In 1993 Jim Valvano accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award and gave one of the most impactful powerful speech's in the history of the Espy's. Valvano, who was fighting cancer at the time and used this speech to do two of the most powerful things that one can do in speech. He first inspired everyone with his advice of what one should do. He said that everyday people should do three things. They should laugh, they should think and they should cry. He talked about how everyone should live each day to the fullest and he would use whatever remaining days he has to enjoy his family and all the people around him. Finally he announced the creation of the Jimmy V foundation to raise money for cancer research. Cancer research was being severely under researched at the time. Since it's founding the Jimmy V foundation has raised over $170 million for Cancer research. This is the power that sports have. If Jim Valvano was a normal person, he and his foundation would never be able to have that kind of fundraising power, but he is a sports figure so he is able to do so


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