Jim Valvano Quotes

Jim Valvano — American Coach born on March 10, 1946, died on April 28, 1993

James Thomas Anthony "Jim" Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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.

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

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 Quotes

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