Top 29 Stuart Scott Quotes
#1. The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.
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#2. In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't talk white. We talked fairly proper. Plus, we had a Midwestern accent, so we didn't have a Southern accent, either. So it wasn't really talking white; it was talking different.
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#3. When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say, 'Come on Mike, break me off a little somethin'-somethin'.' I decided to take that and translate it into what I do on 'SportsCenter.' Just add statistics.
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#4. You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'
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#5. I practice a lot. I practice in the winter when it's cold in Connecticut - a lot. I practice in my bedroom on the carpet - a lot. For all the practice I do, I should be a better golfer than I am.
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#6. Don't downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.
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#7. Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God's grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.
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#8. I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.
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#9. I can't ever give up, because I can't ever leave my daughters,
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#10. I've got corporate executives, my bosses ... this is true ... who will text message me ... and say, 'Hey a, heard you had chemotherapy today, want me to stop by and pick you up something to eat and bring it to you?' Whose boss does that? My bosses do that.
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#11. I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend ... in my mind ... in my soul ... he just said, 'cancer.'
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#12. All of Scripture is for us but not all of Scripture is to us.
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#13. You know what I've never done at a sporting event? Boo. I don't get the whole idea of booing. You're booing someone because they just failed at something? Seriously? Do you know how hard it is to do what they're doing? That they're among the best in the world at what they do?
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#14. You've got to be true to who you are and what you do. I'm more of a hip-hop feel person. Music is how you feel. The younger the mind, that's how I wanna be.
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#15. Writing is better if it's kept simple. Every sentence doesn't need to have perfect noun/verb agreement. I've said 'ain't' on the air. Because I sometimes use 'ain't' when I'm talking.
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#16. People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.
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#18. It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout] ... I'm alive.
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#21. Working out is my way of saying to cancer, 'You're trying to invade my body; you're trying to take me away from my daughters, but I'm stronger than you. And I'm going to hit harder than you.'
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#22. When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
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#23. For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.
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#24. I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know all their stuff.
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#25. I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.
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#26. That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'
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#27. I keep working out for me, but I also keep working out for my daughters. I want Taelor and Sydni to know that I'm still strong. I want to walk them both down the aisle. And I still plan to. I hope to. I don't know. That's what cancer robs you of. Cancer robs you of the ability to look past today.
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#28. When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer.
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#29. My style is black. It's hip-hop. It's who I am.
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