Jim Valvano Quotes

Biography: Jim Valvano is best known for his role as a college basketball coach a... more Biography: Jim Valvano is best known for his role as a college basketball coach and broadcaster. He led the NC State Wolfpack to an NCAA championship in 1983 and later became an inspirational speaker, famously delivering the "Don't give up, don't ever give up" speech at the 1993 ESPY Awards. less

"Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.""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.""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.""There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.""People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn. ""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.""How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? 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.""Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.""Cancer can take away all my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.""A person does not become whole until he becomes a part of something bigger than himself""To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. Number two is think. And number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.""Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed""My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me""Don't give up, don't ever give up"

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