Jimmy v, born jim valvano, was an american college basketball coach who led the north carolina state wolfpack to an improbable national championship in 1983. He was a beloved figure in the sports world and is remembered for his enthusiasm, courage, and determination in the face of adversity. His inspiring words and wise advice continue to motivate and inspire people to this day. Here are some of the best jimmy v quotes that will encourage you to live life to the fullest.
Jimmy V Quotes About Never Giving Up On Your Dreams
🏀 “The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.” — Jimmy V
“You need to have a dream, a goal, and you must be willing to work hard.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.” — Jimmy V
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🏀 “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first steps to succeeding.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “Keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “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.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “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!” — Jimmy V
Inspirational Jimmy V Quotes
🏀 “That’s a special place the locker room for a coach to give a talk.”
🏀 “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.”
“Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.”
🏀 “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.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “It’s so important to know where you are.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “All really successful coaches have a system.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “I’m 21 years old and the kids I’m coaching are 19 and I’m going to be the greatest coach in the world. ”
🏀 “I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.”
🏀 “What people don’t realize, he’s a ten times better person than he is a coach.”
🏀 “I’m a very emotional and passionate man and I can’t help it, that’s being the son of Rocco and Angelina 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.”
🏀 “Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.’
🏀 “I talked about my family, my family’s so important.”
🏀 “Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.” — Jimmy V
Jimmy V Quotes About Finding Happiness
🏀 “I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “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 is you should have your emotions moved to tears.” — Jimmy V
“And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “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.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life.” — Jimmy V
🏀 “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.” — Jimmy V
Best Quotes From Jim Valvano
🏀 “We win or the alumni bash in our teeth.”
🏀 “Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.”
“Motivation to me vis three things. Three things I try to do each day.”
🏀 “Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be.”
🏀 “You plus motivation equals success.”
🏀 “I am an ordinary guy, I want to do extraordinary things in my life and I believe that.”
🏀 “That’s me, I don’t like when people ask me how many weeks off we get before we start to work, that’s me. Maybe I am wrong but that’s just how I am.”
🏀 “Everybody has to have a personal philosophy of how you live your life.”
🏀 “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.”
🏀 “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.”
🏀 “Other people go to the office. I get to coach. I know I’ve been blessed.’
Empowering Jim Valvano Quotes
🏀 “It’s so important to know where you are. And I know where I am right now.”
🏀 “Family, religion Rutgers basketball. All eyes on me. I got it.”
🏀 “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.”
🏀 “To find the unlimited scope of human possibility, look within yourself.”
🏀 “To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think — spend some time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears.”
🏀 “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in me.”
🏀 “How enthusiastic are you every day, every day in your profession?
🏀 “And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That’s important to me too.”
🏀 “It’s so important to know where you are.”
🏀 “I love what I do. Very fortunate. Enthusiasm. Give yourself an enthusiasm check.”
🏀 “I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.”
🏀 “How many people do you know who’ve had their dream come true? You’re looking at one.”
🏀 “Nothing can happen if it’s not first a dream.”
Jim Valvano Quotes On Fight Against Cancer
🏀 “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.”
🏀 “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.”
🏀 “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!”
🏀 “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.”
🏀 “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.”
🏀 “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.”
Final Thoughts
Jimmy v quotes is that they are inspiring, uplifting, and motivational. They provide a source of hope and optimism in a world that can often feel overwhelming and discouraging. They serve as a reminder to all of us that we have the power to achieve anything we set our minds to, and that no matter what our circumstances may be, we can still make a difference in the world.