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Craig Sager Quotes

What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.

– Craig Sager

Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

Ya gotta think positive.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

For our senior picture, they said, ‘Black or navy blazer.’ And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

– Craig Sager

Hope is not just… out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

– Craig Sager

Vice President Biden had recently launched the ‘Cancer Moonshots’, a campaign to finally eradicate cancer across humanity. He had lost his eldest son, Beau, in 2015, to brain cancer, and the ESPYs gave him a platform to raise awareness.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

Something that I’ve always been. Always lively. I don’t want to be dull.

– Craig Sager

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’.

– Craig Sager

As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies – sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

– Craig Sager

I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.

– Craig Sager

When doctors tell you that you have three weeks to live, you try to live a lifetime of moments in three weeks. But you say, ‘To hell with three weeks.’

– Craig Sager

So many times, when you’re doing a job, you feel like you’re a nuisance at times to people, intruding on their space when you ask them questions; maybe they don’t want to deal with you at the time. And now, it’s, ‘Hey, welcome, where’s Craig?’ Whereas, now, it’s kind of different.

– Craig Sager

People come up to me and say somebody in their family has cancer, and we appreciate what you do, and we appreciate your fight, and don’t give up, we love your attitude.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

I can’t even use a can opener. I’m mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids’ bicycle chains.

– Craig Sager

When doctors tell you that your only hope for survival is 14 straight days of intense chemotherapy, 24 hours a day, you sit there, and you count down the 336 hours. You see, each day is a blessing.

– Craig Sager

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.

– Craig Sager

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