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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I will never give up, and I will never give in.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”