Craig Sager Quotes

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

The pain of overcoming our difficulties must be borne by all.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

Just because you are getting hurt doesn't mean you can't come back and win.

I'm a survivor.

All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose - struggle and perseverance.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I am a fighter; I will keep fighting and will never give up.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.