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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. "

Craig Sager

Great

Out

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Think

Positive

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I will live my life full of love and full of fun. It's the only way I know how. "

" 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. "

" I'm grateful to HBO for telling my story, and I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support. "

Craig Sager

Story

Grateful

" 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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Resting

Bedroom

" A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes. "

" 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. "

" I'm fighting not only for myself and for my family, but I feel I am fighting for everybody who has cancer. "

" I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up. "

Craig Sager

Cancer

Refuse

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

" Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me. "

Craig Sager

Soul

Drives

" 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. "

Craig Sager

Grow

Successful

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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'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 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. "

" The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act. "

" 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. "

" I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

Craig Sager

Why

Complain

" If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me. "

Craig Sager

Battle

Losing