Words matter. These are the best Craig Sager Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.
Hope is not just… out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.
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.
When doctors tell you that you have three weeks to live, you try to live a lifetime of moments in three weeks. But you say, ‘To hell with three weeks.’
Something that I’ve always been. Always lively. I don’t want to be dull.
Ya gotta think positive.
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.
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.
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.
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 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’.
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.
Sports are in my soul. That’s what drives me.
I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.
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.
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.
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.
I’m fighting not only for myself and for my family, but I feel I am fighting for everybody who has cancer.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.
A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.
If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I’m not going to let leukemia affect me.
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.
Erik Spoelstra has always been a guy I’d talk to even when he was just doing video clips for the Heat.
Back in the early ’70s, there were two airlines that flew puddle jumpers from the Sarasota-Bradenton airport to Atlanta: National and Eastern, neither of which exists today.
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.
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.
For our senior picture, they said, ‘Black or navy blazer.’ And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?
I will never give up, and I will never give in.
