Jim Valvano Quotes About Basketball

Quotes about: Basketball

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

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter
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  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

  Encouraging, Basketball, Uplifting

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

• Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Sports, Giving Up

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thank God, Moments

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Thinking, Numbers

• 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

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Trust, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Champion, Up To You

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

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Blessed

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Life, Basketball, Laughter

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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

  Jim Valvano

  Smile, Basketball, Giving

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Dream, Nba

• 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

  Motivational, Basketball, Dream

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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

  Jim Valvano

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

• All really successful coaches have a system.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Successful, Coaching

• It's so important to know where you are.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, Where You Are

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Winning, Teeth

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

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Milk, Institutions

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Important, North Carolina

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Team, Intelligent

• 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)

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Differences, Noses

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Running, Business

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Giving, Looks

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

• 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.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Children, Important

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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