Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Jim Valvano
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jim Valvano
Age: 47 †
Born: 1946
Born: March 10
Died: 1993
Died: April 28
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Coach
Queens
New York
James Thomas Anthony Valvano
Jimmy V
Course
Ems
Give
Coaching
Wells
Coaches
Well
Basketball
Giving
Gave
Refs
Things
Asked
Stink
Think
Trust
Foul
Thinking
Courses
Technical
More quotes by Jim Valvano
Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!
Jim Valvano
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 that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
Jim Valvano
I talked about my family, my family's so important.
Jim Valvano
Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.
Jim Valvano
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.
Jim Valvano
You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.
Jim Valvano
Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.
Jim Valvano
Don't give up. Don't ever give up.
Jim Valvano
I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
Jim Valvano
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.
Jim Valvano
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.
Jim Valvano
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano
If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.
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
Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
Jim Valvano
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.
Jim Valvano
Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I've been blessed.
Jim Valvano
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
Jim Valvano
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.
Jim Valvano
