Jim Valvano Quotes

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.

Don't give up, don't ever give up.

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.

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

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.

I'm not happy to be here. I'm just happy to be!

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

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

Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

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.

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.

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.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish 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.

And I'm going to work as hard as I can ... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

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

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.

I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

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

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

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

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

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.

To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think
spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that's a heck of a day.