Craig Sager Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Journalist June 29, 1951 - December 15, 2016

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.

Beauty Hope Faith Tomorrow

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.

You Face Obstacles Everyone

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

Time You Perception Time Changes

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.

Life Never Give Up Appreciation Never

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.

Love Learning Day Waiting

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.

Life God Time You

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.

Good You Blue Yellow

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.

Time You Welcome People

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

Always Want Something Dull

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

Positive Sky Hope Reality

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

Life Love My Life Fun

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

Me Being Turn Veins

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

Never Give Up Never Will Give

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

You Feel Think Way

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

Bedroom Like Train Resting

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.

People City Beach Country

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'.

Good Man People Look

Ya gotta think positive.

Positive Think Gotta Ya

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.

Strength Go I Can Two

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

Life Me Fighting Will

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

Life My Life People Like

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

Boring Small Small Town Out

For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?

Black Look Picture Thought

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

Sports Dress Fun Have Fun

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.

You Step Never Know

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

Fighting Cancer Give Up

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