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" Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me. "
Craig Sager
Soul
Drives
Me
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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. "
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" I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring. "
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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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" I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself. "
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" 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. "
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Down
" Something that I've always been. Always lively. I don't want to be dull. "
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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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Atlanta
" 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
Faith
" 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
Through
Two
Strength
" 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. "
Craig Sager
Pink
Blue
Good
" 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
You
Obstacles
Successful
" Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs. "
Craig Sager
Like
Resting
Bedroom
" I will live my life full of love and full of fun. It's the only way I know how. "
Craig Sager
Know
My Life
Love
" 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
Life
God
Time
" 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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Florida
Ted
Caribbean
" I will never give up, and I will never give in. "
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Will
Up
Never Give Up
" 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
" 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
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Opportunity
Love
" 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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Son
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Brain
" 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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Moments
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" 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. "
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Radio
News
Morning
" 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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Game
Fans
" 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. "
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Baseball
Cards
Boy
" 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. "
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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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" I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up. "
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