Don't Give Up... Don't Ever Give Up (ESPY Address)
Delivered at the inaugural ESPY Awards on March 3, 1993, while battling terminal cancer, launching the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
Full Transcript
Thank you. Thank you very much. To have the screen show four minutes and I’m showing 30 seconds… I got tumor cells in my body and I’m talking about 30 seconds!
To me, there are three things we all should do every day we spend on this earth. 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.
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a 7-day-a-week day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.
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. And those three things are going to carry on forever.
Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
Defining Key Excerpts
"Don't give up. Don't ever give up."
"To me, there are three things we all should do every day... Number one is laugh. Number two is think. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears."
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