"Don't give up, don't ever give up."

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates."

"Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to."

"A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals."

"Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We."

"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges."

"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are."

-Ara Parashegian

“Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.”

"How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? 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."

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

"The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important."

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."

"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."

"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it."

 

North Carolina State University's Men's Head Basketball Coach Jimmy Valvano speaks of his battle with cancer at the 1993 ESPY's.
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Northern State University's Men's Head Basketball Coach Don Meyer accepts the Jimmy Valvano Award at the 2009 ESPY's.
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