Zitat des Tages von Ron Santo:
We're getting closer. I believe a 5-year-old with diabetes will live long enough to be cured.
I believe very strongly - and I never brought this up as a player - but I put up, I feel, Hall of Fame numbers with diabetes. If I didn't have diabetes - nobody realizes that, when I was diagnosed at 18, even the doctors didn't know what to do about diabetes.
Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors - or worse, release me.
I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.
The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.
I'm a Cubbie. I'll always be a Cubbie.