Craig Sager Quotes

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Cancer does not discriminate.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

Time for me is double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last cancer relapse, but every day also brings me closer to the next cancer recurrence - and eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.

When they told me I had cancer, I thought I was going to die.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

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

My mom was diagnosed at the age of 46 with ovarian cancer.

I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's terrible about Stephen, isn't it?' They told me that he had been in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease - motor neurone disease.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.