Jim Valvano Quotes

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

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.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of 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.

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.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.

Never give up...never ever give up.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

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.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it.

To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.

Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

It's so important to know where you are.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

All really successful coaches have a system.

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.

Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

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.

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.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that's one heckuva full day.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.

Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.