Quotes from Jim Valvano

We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.

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

Don't give up, don't ever give up.

I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again: Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.

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.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give: he believed in me.

I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

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.

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.

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

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.

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one.

Take time every day to laugh, to think, to cry.

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.

We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

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 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.

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

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