Jim Valvano

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

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

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

You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.

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

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

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!

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.

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