Jim Valvano Quotes about Basketball

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

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.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

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

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.

There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.

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.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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.

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)