Charlie Kimball Quotes

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

I can't tell you, as a parent, how it feels when the doctor tells you your child has diabetes. First off, you don't really know much about it. Then you discover there is no cure.

My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.

A diabetic always wants to help another diabetic.

The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person.

Black people don't talk about diabetes that much. I never knew anything. I thought everyone had an uncle with a leg cut off!

I believe very strongly - and I never brought this up as a player - but I put up, I feel, Hall of Fame numbers with diabetes. If I didn't have diabetes - nobody realizes that, when I was diagnosed at 18, even the doctors didn't know what to do about diabetes.

I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.

Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'

Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.

I am the world's worst diabetic.

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

My natural state is to be happy. I'm naturally buoyant. I wake up feeling, 'What a great morning!' I've had some tragedy in my life, absolutely, but I don't know one human being who hasn't. You either learn from it and become empowered by it, or you become a victim to it. It's life, after all.

I have no regrets in life, and you know what? If I could, I'd go back and do it all again.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

The beautiful thing about having family that has diabetes is knowing what not to do. I got an uncle that thinks insulin is supposed to enable him to eat cake.

Two-thirds of people with diabetes don't realize the seriousness that it can cause their hearts. They don't realize they can have a stroke, drop dead of a heart attack. So you've got to get this thing under control.

You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.

Every day is a blessing in WWE, and I keep reminding myself of that. That's my character.

You should wake up in the morning and say, 'What do I want to do today? What's going to make me happy?'

We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, 'Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?'