Jim Valvano Quotes

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

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 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 gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

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

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

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

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.

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