Jermain Defoe Quotes

Anybody who has cancer, they take it one day at a time.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.

I learnt in South America and in Africa that people who have really big problems in the ghetto always keep a sense of humour and remain positive. If not, you go down.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

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.

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.

When I was in college, I had a fear of cancer.

In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through.

After being diagnosed with cancer, one is in a lot of fear and anxiety about the anticipated pain and the painful treatment.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.