Quotes by Jim Valvano

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.

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.

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

All really successful coaches have a system.

Never give up...never ever give up.

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.

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Don't give up. Don't 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 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.

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.

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

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