Craig Sager

“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.”

“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.”

“Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.”

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

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

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

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

“Ya gotta think positive.”

“Erik Spoelstra has always been a guy I'd talk to even when he was just doing video clips for the Heat.”

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

“Krista's got a great boyfriend; they've been going together for years. I want to be around to walk her down the aisle.”

“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 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.”

“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?”

“I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up.”

“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.”

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

“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.”