Jim Valvano Quotes & Sayings

21 most famous Jim Valvano quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American coach who passed away on 28 April, 1993.

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Don't give up. Don't ever give up.”

“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.”

“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.”