Craig Sager Quotes
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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?
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Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs.
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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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If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.
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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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I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.
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I try not to match too much. You know, if there's a blue coat and a blue shirt and a blue tie, I try to stay away from that. I'd rather have a blue coat and a yellow shirt and a pink tie. I don't like to look too matching. You know those mismatched socks kids wear? That's my idea of a good suit.
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If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning.
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In 1974 when I was 22 years old, I was working for $95 a week at WSPB, which was an Atlanta Braves-affiliated AM radio station in Sarasota, Florida. Fresh out of Northwestern University, I was the news director at the station, and my main bread and butter was to handle updates during the morning and afternoon drive times.
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A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.
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Back in the early '70s, there were two airlines that flew puddle jumpers from the Sarasota-Bradenton airport to Atlanta: National and Eastern, neither of which exists today.
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I have acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of cancer. The typical prognosis is 3-6 months to live, but I would like to stress that is for a patient who is not receiving treatment.
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I get this call and they go, you know, 'Do you want to do the finals?' and I go, 'Yeah, I guess, I've never, never done the finals.' Especially for somebody who's done as many thousands of games as I have, it kind of takes you one step further.
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To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.
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I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work.
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If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.
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They wanted to try this outpatient chemo, and I said no problem. I was adamant. I didn't want to miss any games. It's where I'm supposed to be, and I wanted to be there.
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Nobody knows how long they have left on Earth. There's no guarantees, and for me, when they tell you - not once, twice, three times - 'You've got a couple weeks to live,' or a couple months, you have to determine how you want to do that.
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Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.
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Erik Spoelstra has always been a guy I'd talk to even when he was just doing video clips for the Heat.
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I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up.
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I will never give up, and I will never give in.
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I never complain: 'Oh, I have to go to the hospital and get platelets.' No. It's just something you have to do, so why complain about it?