Craig Sager Quotes

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

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

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.

I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.

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

When they told me I had cancer - a very rare form called appendiceal cancer - I was shocked. But I went straight into battle mode. Every morning, I'd wake up and have an internal conversation with cancer. 'All right, dude,' I'd tell it, 'go ahead and hit me. But I'm going to hit you back even harder.'

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

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions.

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

I am happy to join AutoNation in the fight against cancer. This disease hits close to home for me with the loss of my mom in 2009. Raising awareness and finding a cure is really important to me.

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

When you fight something like cancer, you not dealing with a person that looks at where you come from or what's your background or what race you are or what ethnicity or whatever. Whatever your culture is, it doesn't care about that. It doesn't sleep - it doesn't get tired - so if you make it about yourself, you're going to fail every time.

Cancer is not for sissies.

Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that. I applaud other actors who do that and I am not ripping on them, but to me, that's a badge of honor if you're fighting this disease.

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.

You don't treat cancer - you fight it.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.

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

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong.

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.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

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.