24 Inspiring Quotes by Jim Valvano

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

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.

Never give up...never ever give up.

All really successful coaches have a system.

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

The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you're ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose.

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.