Jim Valvano Quotes

James Thomas Anthony Valvano , nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster.

While the head coach at North Carolina State University, his team won the 1983 national title against improbable odds. Valvano is not only remembered for running up and down the court seemingly in disbelief and looking for someone to hug after winning the game against the heavily-favored Houston Cougars, but also for his inspirational speech ten years later at the ESPY Awards. He gave the speech less than two months before his death from adenocarcinoma, a type of many glandular cancers.

✵ 10. March 1946 – 28. April 1993