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 specia…

- Jim Valvano

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.

- Jim Valvano

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

- Jim Valvano

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…

- Jim Valvano

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

- Jim Valvano

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 yo…

- Jim Valvano

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

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.

- Jim Valvano

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

- Jim Valvano