- Jim
(Jimmy or James) Valvano
"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 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"
"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."
" It took me a long time to learn that the relationship between
hard work and success is NOT direct. If you work hard, you'll be
successful; that is not the case. The relationship is: If you don't work
hard, then you can't be successful." --- Taken from the TV movie
"Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story"
"Don't
give up, don't ever give up."
"Never ever give up. Ever"
"Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have
someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a
vision, if you have someone who never gives up, who has great hope,
Anything can happen."
"If this were an election, I've got about 90 percent of the people.
I'm doing great in the popular vote, but the electoral college beat the
hell out of me."
"How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? 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."
"He kept saying what a great hotel we were in. Then came the last
day. He complained the towels were so thick he couldn't close his
suitcase." touring Europe with pal Massimino
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