Craig Sager Quotes
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Whatever I might have imagined a terminal diagnosis would do to my spirit, it summoned quite the opposite - the greatest appreciation for life itself. So I will never give up, and I will never give in.
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I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.
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Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.
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Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
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Sarasota in 1974 was a city of 46,459 people, the 73rd-largest market in the country and sixth-largest in Florida, according to Arbitron Ratings. To supplement my meager salary, I was a bartender at Big Daddy's on St. Armand's Circle and a sailing instructor at nearby Lido Beach.
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I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
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I can't bring out something I've already worn. I want to make sure I don't look down. I want people to say, 'Man, he looks good'.
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What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.
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Ya gotta think positive.
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I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.
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I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.
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I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we don't have hope and faith, we have nothing.
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I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.
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When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.
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The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.
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I'm fighting not only for myself and for my family, but I feel I am fighting for everybody who has cancer.
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Krista's got a great boyfriend; they've been going together for years. I want to be around to walk her down the aisle.
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Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.
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I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't even in the alphabet, they're just numbers - clinical trials. But I bet if you added all those up, it would have to be like 60- or 70-something. I've had 23 bone marrow aspirations. Having one isn't fun and I've had 23. So that's been tough.
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I will live my life full of love and full of fun. It's the only way I know how.
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I've already had two stem cell transplants. Very rarely does somebody have a third, so I have to maintain my strength so I can go through this.
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I don't know how much time I have left, and there are certain things I'd like to do. I've got five kids. Kacy, the oldest, I'd like to see her be happy and fulfilled with her dreams. I want Junior, who gave me the two transplants, I want him to find his niche; I know he's going to make a very big impact someday.
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It seems everybody has been somehow affected by cancer, either through a relative or a close friend or somewhere, and they know how devastating cancer can be. And they see me, and I refuse to let it affect how I live and what I do.
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For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?