Jenna Morasca Quotes

I feel like everyone at some point has been affected by cancer, whether it's family or a friend.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.

Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

You know, cancer is bipartisan. I mean, there are so many people whose lives are touched and changed by cancer that people are willing to work together to find cures, find solutions, make lives better for cancer patients. So I think people put politics aside. This isn't a political thing. This is a life issue.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

Any charity that aids or supports trying to find a cure for cancer is very close to my heart. My mom had cancer multiple times, so it's something that I can relate to.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

I don't feel that this is unfair. That's the thing about cancer. I'm not the only one; it happens all the time to people. I'm not special.

It's so very important for me to be involved in raising awareness and funds for cancer research.

I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.

My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

I had a ringside seat to cancer. As have most people.

Cancer doesn't discriminate, and in WWE, we have made it our mantra that cancer is 'unacceptable.'

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.

Cancer is everybody's cause.

More people live off cancer than die from it.

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.