Devon Still quotes

“We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.”
-- Devon Still

Source : "The ESPYs: The Only Awards Show That Matters" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. July 16, 2015.

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“I just ask that everyone continue to raise awareness and fight for pediatric cancer. The fight's not over.”
-- Devon Still

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“The whole experience...I have been just stunned. It has helped so much. I can't believe that in this sport that has no so-called heart, it's really so full of heart. That's the truth; Football is full of heart.”
-- Devon Still

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“Now that it looks like things are headed on the right path, I'm ready to go back and play football.”
-- Devon Still

Source : "Bengals re-sign Devon Still" by Coley Harvey, abcnews.go.com. March 19, 2015.

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“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”

“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”

“Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.”

“The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.”

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”

“If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs”

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.49, Macmillan