Valvano, Jim Filmography

• Play in Full Screen ESPN 25: Who's #1?

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Award Show Awards Show

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Wide World of Sports 35th Anniversary Special

  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen ABC Sports: World League

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself - Sideline Reporter
• Play in Full Screen ESPN: NCAA Basketball

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by 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."

"To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think -- spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that's a heck of a day."

"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."

"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead."

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

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

"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."

"To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. 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."

"I will thank God for the day and the moment I have."

"I talked about my family, my family's so important."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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. I'd like to think 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 can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever."

"And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too."

"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."

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