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Ya gotta think positive.
I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up.
Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.
I will never give up, and I will never give in.
I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.
Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.
I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.
Something that I've always been. Always lively. I don't want to be dull.
I will live my life full of love and full of fun. It's the only way I know how.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.
The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.
If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.
I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.
I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.
I'm grateful to HBO for telling my story, and I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support.
Erik Spoelstra has always been a guy I'd talk to even when he was just doing video clips for the Heat.
I'm fighting not only for myself and for my family, but I feel I am fighting for everybody who has cancer.
Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs.
For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?
I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.
Krista's got a great boyfriend; they've been going together for years. I want to be around to walk her down the aisle.
I try to get there three hours before the game, talk with the ushers and the security guards, the coaches and the fans.
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.
When you raise kids, you want them to grow up and be successful. If they can grow up and be like you, it's quite flattering.
What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.
I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.
A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.
I can't bring out something I've already worn. I want to make sure I don't look down. I want people to say, 'Man, he looks good'.
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.
I never complain: 'Oh, I have to go to the hospital and get platelets.' No. It's just something you have to do, so why complain about it?
Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.
Life should be fun, and so should your clothes. It's not about sending a message. It's about feeling good about yourself and being who you are.
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.
Time is something that cannot be bought; it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply, Time is simply how you live your life.
I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we don't have hope and faith, we have nothing.
As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.
I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.
To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.
When doctors tell you that you have three weeks to live, you try to live a lifetime of moments in three weeks. But you say, 'To hell with three weeks.'
I've never had one of those middle of the nights when I go, 'Why me?' or 'I don't know if I can keep fighting like this.' No. Those thoughts don't even enter my mind.
They wanted to try this outpatient chemo, and I said no problem. I was adamant. I didn't want to miss any games. It's where I'm supposed to be, and I wanted to be there.
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.
I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.
Back in the early '70s, there were two airlines that flew puddle jumpers from the Sarasota-Bradenton airport to Atlanta: National and Eastern, neither of which exists today.
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 have acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of cancer. The typical prognosis is 3-6 months to live, but I would like to stress that is for a patient who is not receiving treatment.
I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.
When doctors tell you that your only hope for survival is 14 straight days of intense chemotherapy, 24 hours a day, you sit there, and you count down the 336 hours. You see, each day is a blessing.
Whatever I might have imagined a terminal diagnosis would do to my spirit, it summoned quite the opposite - the greatest appreciation for life itself. So I will never give up, and I will never give in.