Craig Sager

“What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.”

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

“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...”

“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 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 bas...”

“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 w...”

“I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 nev...”