Susan Butcher Quotations

Just in time for the start of the Iditarod.

I've been pretty tired. It's hit me pretty hard.

They each come over to the hospital every day. We play games. They push my IV cart around so I can walk, and they are good at massaging my feet and helping me feel better.

There was a lot of pain. I've broken a lot of bones out there, but it was what I loved doing. I didn't really choose to have leukemia. This is just a battle that was given me.

All you can do is hope that all the rest of it goes well for you.

I care for my dogs as if my life depended on them. And oftentimes it does.

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

Dogs have a lot to communicate to a person willing to listen.

I was very aware that I was a woman and that the Iditarod was a big thing for women, but I didn't want to be given any special treatment. I just wanted to be viewed as a musher.

Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.

I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.