3 December 2020 Jim Valvano 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Valvano 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.
