Craig Sager Quotes

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.
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.
I try to get there three hours before the game, talk with the ushers and the security guards, the coaches and the fans.
I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.
I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.
I will live my life full of love and full of fun. It's the only way I know how.
I will never give up, and I will never give in.
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.
I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up.
I'm fighting not only for myself and for my family, but I feel I am fighting for everybody who has cancer.
I'm grateful to HBO for telling my story, and I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support.
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.
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.
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.
If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Craig Sager
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BirthDate
29 June, 1951
DeathDate
15 December, 2016
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