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" Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations. "
Craig Sager
Sky
Facts
Out
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" I first met Jim Valvano in the 1980s when he was a frequent guest on our CNN 'Coaches Corner' show based in Atlanta, as he was always in the area recruiting the next North Carolina State basketball phenom. "
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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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" 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 look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports. "
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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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" I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself. "
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" I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains. "
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" There are things you want to do, but you can't really look at the future. You don't know how much there is. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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Say
People
" I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me. "
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Fighting
Keep
" 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.' "
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You
Hell
" 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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You
" I try to get there three hours before the game, talk with the ushers and the security guards, the coaches and the fans. "
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Fans
" 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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Family
Feel
" When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever. "
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Cancer
My Life
Forever
" 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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Pink
Blue
Good
" 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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Beauty
Tomorrow
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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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" Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me. "
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Me
" I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up. "
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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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" 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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" The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act. "
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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 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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" 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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