Jim Valvano Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

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.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

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

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. (On resembling Joe Namath)

Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

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

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

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.

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

Each day, be sure to laugh, to think, to cry; that's one heckuva full day.

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.

It's so important to know where you are.

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.

All really successful coaches have a system.

We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

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.

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!

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.

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.

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

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.