Compay Segundo Quotes

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

My life I was raised to believe that you should never give in—that you should never give up.

I didn't get in to 'Strictly' the first time, but my determination and enthusiasm shone through and got me a job on the show the following year. Don't give up and turn the no's and setbacks into a positive!

I'm like a 'comeback kid' - you can't keep me down for long!

I have been a fighter all my life.

I'm a fighter. That's what I've been my whole life.

Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

In the midst of death life persists.

The body is a damn hard thing to kill.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.