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Craig Sager
American
Journalist
Born:
Jun 29
,
1951
Died:
Dec 15
,
2016
Cancer
Life
Live
Me
Sports
You
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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.
Craig Sager
Life
Never Give Up
Appreciation
Will
Whatever
Summoned
Would
Spirit
Give
Never
Terminal
Greatest
Diagnosis
Opposite
Up
Itself
Quite
Might
Imagined
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
Hurdles
Face
Everybody
Everyone
Those
Determines
Obstacles
How
Going
Successful
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
Love
Day
Learning
Waiting
Every Day
Opportunity
Living
Every
Through
Learned
Anything
Canvas
Painted
Fun
Each
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.
Craig Sager
Hope
Faith
Tomorrow
Half
Beauty
Nothing
Others
See
Glass
Half Full
Always
Full
Something that I've always been. Always lively. I don't want to be dull.
Craig Sager
Something
Always
Been
Dull
Want
Lively
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
Craig Sager
Positive
Hope
Reality
Sky
Out
Having
Facts
Accepting
Optimistic
Expectations
Just
I will live my life full of love and full of fun. It's the only way I know how.
Craig Sager
Life
Love
Will
My Life
Live
Way
Only
Know
How
Full
Fun
Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs.
Craig Sager
Resting
Table
Had
Like
Most
Boy
Bedroom
Up
Train
Model
Upstairs
Set
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.
Craig Sager
People
Circle
Country
Big
Market
City
Beach
Ratings
Supplement
Instructor
Sailing
Salary
According
Bartender
Daddy
Nearby
Florida
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'.
Craig Sager
Good
Man
People
Down
Worn
Say
Out
Something
He
Look
Looks
Make
Sure
Want
Bring
Ya gotta think positive.
Craig Sager
Positive
Think
Ya
Gotta
I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.
Craig Sager
Life
Me
Will
Fighting
Out
Marrow
Continue
Sucking
Sucks
Keep
I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
Craig Sager
Corn
Out
Boring
Small
Small Town
Town
West
Chicago
Up
Grew
Fields
Ill
For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?
Craig Sager
Thought
Black
Picture
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Our
Blazer
Like
Look
Said
Senior
Want
Navy
Why
I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up.
Craig Sager
Cancer
Fighting
Give
Up
Refuse
They wanted to try this outpatient chemo, and I said no problem. I was adamant. I didn't want to miss any games. It's where I'm supposed to be, and I wanted to be there.
Craig Sager
Problem
Try
No Problem
Miss
Supposed
Said
Any
Where
Want
Wanted
Games
Adamant
I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.
Craig Sager
Me
Thoughts
Mind
Fighting
Nights
Those
Enter
Never
Had
Like
Know
Go
Middle
Even
Keep
Why
Erik Spoelstra has always been a guy I'd talk to even when he was just doing video clips for the Heat.
Craig Sager
Guy
He
Talk
Always
Doing
Been
Heat
Just
Video
Even
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.
Craig Sager
Attitude
Time
You
Negative
Down
Running
Results
Feel
Around
Going
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.
Craig Sager
Life
Work
Day
Sports
Made
Kid
Seemed
Small
Never
Town
Like
Although
Cubs
Been
His
Chicago
Chicago Cubs
Up
Where
Grew
Who
Illinois
Actually
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.
Craig Sager
Great
Mario
Airplane
Out
Run
Over
Great Wall
Climbed
Bulls
Wall
China
Kansas
If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.
Craig Sager
Me
Game
Battle
Losing
Missed
Affect
Going
Meant
Leukemia
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.
Craig Sager
History
Believe
Think
Has-Been
Take
Demise
Make
Been
Reported
Going
Really
Prematurely
Medical
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.
Craig Sager
Cancer
Stress
Patient
Aggressive
Live
Type
Typical
Months
Would
Like
Who
Leukemia
Acute
Receiving
Treatment
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.
Craig Sager
Sports
Young
Distinct
Airplane
Had
Boy
Always
Model
Trains
Hobbies
Fascination
Usual
Baseball
Cards
I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.
Craig Sager
Change
Bicycle
Kids
Ripped
Opener
Off
Trying
Use
Chains
Even
Challenged
Two
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