Nineteen years after delivering one of the most famous pieces of rhetoric in American sport, James Thomas Anthony Valvano still rests in a small section of Raleigh’s Oakwood Cemetery just across from St. Augustine’s college.    Valvano rests. His legacy does not.    Known almost universally as “Jimmy V,” N.C. State’s most storied coaching icon spent 10 seasons as the Wolfpack’s head man. He won 346 games at State, took his teams to the NCAA Tournament on seven occasions, saw Elite Eight action twice, and touched the mountain top in 1983 with an unforgettable National Championship victory over Houston.    Since forming the V Foundation for Cancer Research on March 3, 1993, over $90 million has been raised to fight the disease which is responsible for one in four deaths in the United States. Valvano announced the foundation’s formation during his speech heard around the world at that year’s ESPY; he would die less than two months later.    The memories of Jimmy V that most people have usually consist of his coaching career at NCSU or the foundation he assembled nearly two decades ago. In honor of the 19th anniversary of a speech that touched the lives of millions of Americans, here is, in quotes, glimpses of the Jimmy Valvano you may not remember.      “When N.C. State played at home in Reynolds Coliseum, he would do all his postgame interviews and then head for his office. Pizza, beer, and wine would be ordered, and Valvano would hold court. His assistant coaches were there and so were various friends. Often I would show up for games at State, not so much to see the game as to hang out in Valvano’s office afterward.” – John Feinstein, American Sportswriter   “He chased ‘The Next Thing’ for a while, flying to New York on Monday mornings to appear on CBS’s ‘Early Morning,’ Show; doing color on occasional games in season; hosting that awful sports bloopers show; doing a pilot for a variety show in Hollywood (seriously); selling memorabilia; becoming the athletic director at State. Anything to avoid being just a coach.” >- John Feinstein, American Sportswriter   “Valvano knew as soon as he saw the pictures of his back that he was going to die.” – John Feinstein, American Sportswriter   “Jim was in the bathroom sick the whole flight. By that point, he could barely walk. I was convinced there was no way he was going to be able to make it through his speech that night.” – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke head coach   “He had told me he knew the speech would exhaust him so much he wouldn’t be able to get down the steps on his own. He said ‘When I finish, come get me because I don’t want to fall on my face.'” – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke head coach   “People always talked about how he let his program at N.C. State go after the National Championship. Let me tell you something. The program he built with the V Foundation was as great a job of coaching as anyone has ever done. Look at the legacy he left behind.” – Mike Krzyzewski, Duke head coach   “Look at all those banners. You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to get a banner for the last two seasons that says, “National Champions.” Then at the bottom I’ll put ‘almost.'” – Jim Valvano after walking into the Dean Smith Center and noticing banners for participating in the NIT and tying for an ACC regular season championship   “All I ever wanted to do was cut the nets down, win a National Championship. When I did clinics at summer camps, at the end I would make the kids pick me up on their shoulders so I could cut down the nets. Then I won the National Championship when I was thirty-seven years old. All of a sudden I had done coaching. Maybe I could win it again, but it would never feel the way it felt that first time. It couldn’t.” – Jim Valvano   “Be a dreamer. If you don’t know how to dream, you’re dead.” – Jim Valvano