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Jim Valvano [1946-1993] American

Rank: 11
Coach, Basketball Player

James Thomas Anthony Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster.
While the head basketball coach at North Carolina State University, his team won the 1983 NCAA Basketball Tournament against improbable odds.

Business, Courage, Dreams, Family, Father's Day, God, Life, Mom, Money, Smile, Trust, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.	Father's Day	101
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.		102
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.	Life	103
Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.	Dreams	104
Don't give up. Don't ever give up.		105
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.	Work	106
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.	Trust	107
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.		108
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.	God	109
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.		110
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.	Business	111
People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.	Courage, Family, Mom	112
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.	Smile	113
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.		114
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.		115
Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.		116
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.	Money	117
What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.		118
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!		119
Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.		120
I talked about my family, my family's so important.		121
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.		122
I'm not happy to be here. I'm just happy to be!		123
How many people do you know who've had their dream come true? You're looking at one.		124
I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.		125
I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.		126

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