Craig Sager Quotes

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

I didn't have chemo.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

I had a unique form: a Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?

My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer when she was 47.

They didn't tell me what type of cancer I had. They didn't tell me what stage I was in. They just told me, 'Mr Gomez, you have cancer.' My life flashed before my eyes. I thought about my kids, I thought about my wife. Nothing prepares you for the shock of someone telling you you have that horrible disease.

In my experience with cancer, I was one of the lucky ones: diagnosed and treated by a qualified team of professionals as well as benefiting from the advancements in cancer research.

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.

I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.