Craig Sager

"I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work."

"I've already had two stem cell transplants. Very rarely does somebody have a third, so I have to maintain my strength so I can go through this."

"If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning."

"If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results."

"So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, intruding on their space when you ask them questions; maybe they don't want to deal with you at the time. And now, it's, 'Hey, welcome, where's Craig?' Whereas, now, it's kind of different."

"Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me."

"Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress."