I talked about my family, my family’s so important.
JIM VALVANONow 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.
More Jim Valvano Quotes
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Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
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Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.
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Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.
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And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
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Never give up, never ever give up.
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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.
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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.
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Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn’t telling anyone?
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The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.
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In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
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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.
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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)
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