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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Ya gotta think positive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Sarasota in 1974 was a city of 46,459 people, the 73rd-largest market in the country and sixth-largest in Florida, according to Arbitron Ratings. To supplement my meager salary, I was a bartender at Big Daddy's on St. Armand's Circle and a sailing instructor at nearby Lido Beach. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There are things you want to do, but you can't really look at the future. You don't know how much there is. "

" 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. "

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

" I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports. "

" I don't know how much time I have left, and there are certain things I'd like to do. I've got five kids. Kacy, the oldest, I'd like to see her be happy and fulfilled with her dreams. I want Junior, who gave me the two transplants, I want him to find his niche; I know he's going to make a very big impact someday. "