If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

- Alonzo Mourning

A lot of people are surprised economists are assisting with kidney exchanges. Exchanges are what economists are good at.

- Alvin E. Roth

Colin Powell has said over the years that Saddam Hussein is like a toothache. It recurs from time to time, and you just have to live with it. At other times, he's compared Saddam Hussein to a kidney stone that will eventually pass. But he has never said, 'You have to operate and take out the kidney stone.'

- Elaine Sciolino

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

- Joe Murray

I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

- Natalie Cole

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

- Natalie Cole

It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

- Natalie Cole

A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.

- Natalie Cole

My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

- Natalie Cole

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

- Sean Elliott