29 Amazing Jim Valvano Quotes To Motivate You In Your Job Search

Updated: Dec 2, 2022

Jim Valvano was an American basketball player and coach. With a list of awards across his life, Valvano is most notable for his time as a coach at North Carolina State University. These quotes about Jim Valvano will offer you the right amount of encouragement for pursuing your successful career and being the best you can be.

“A person really doesn’t become whole until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.”
“Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.”
“Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.”
“How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have 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.”
“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.”
“I talked about my family, my family’s so important.”
“I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.”
“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.”
“In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.”
“It’s so important to know where you are.”
“Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.”
“Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.”
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
“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.”
“Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, a motivated person with a goal and a vision, someone who never gives up, and has great hope, Anything can happen.”
“Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.”
“Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.”
“Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.”
“The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them.”
“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.”
“To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.”
“We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three, you should have your emotions moved to tears.”
“You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.”