I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't even in the alphabet, they're just numbers - clinical trials. But I bet if you added all those up, it would have to be like 60- or 70-something. I've had 23 bone marrow aspirations. Having one isn't fun and I've had 23. So that's been tough.

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.

If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.

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 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.