Jim Valvano Quotes: Don’t give up, Don’t ever give up
James Thomas Anthony Valvano (March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993), nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster.
While the head basketball coach at North Carolina State University, his team won the 1983 NCAA Basketball Tournament against improbable odds. Valvano is not only remembered for running up and down the court after winning the game against the heavily favored Houston Cougars, seemingly in disbelief and looking for someone to hug, but also for his inspirational 1993 ESPY Awards speech, given just eight weeks before he died of bone cancer.
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Jim Valvano Quotes
1. Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
― Jim Valvano
2. My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
― Jim Valvano
3. 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.
― Jim Valvano
4. 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.
― Jim Valvano
5. 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.
― Jim Valvano
6. Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
― Jim Valvano
7. It's so important to know where you are.
― Jim Valvano
8. I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
― Jim Valvano
9. 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.
― Jim Valvano
10. I talked about my family, my family's so important.
― Jim Valvano
11. 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. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about 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.
― Jim Valvano
12. In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
― Jim Valvano
13. 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.
― Jim Valvano
14. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.
― Jim Valvano, Valvano: They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead
15. The very first time you stood in the locker room to give a pep talk. That's a special place, the locker room, for a coach to give a talk.
― Jim Valvano
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