Cubs Quotes

• What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

  Harry Caray

  Baseball, Mama, Bears

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Sports, Baseball, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Patience, Years

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• Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Sunshine, Player

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• I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Thinking, Special

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• [On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.

  Hillary Clinton

  Baseball, Chicago, Fans

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• When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

  Sakya Pandita

  Goal, Working Together, Lions

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• Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Stars, Cowboy

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• I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

  Sara Paretsky

  Chicago, Dies, Chicago Cubs

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• Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining themselves with a heavenly ichor that combines loyalty, criticism, cheerfulness, durability, rage, beer and hope, in exquisite proportions.

  Roger Angell

  Loyalty, Baseball, Beer

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Roger Angell Baseball Collection: The Summer Game, Five Seasons, and Season Ticket”, p.1294, Open Road Media

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• One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

  Joe Garagiola

  Sports, Keys, Fans

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• All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Baseball, Yankees, Wind

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• It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Two, Fans

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• When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub

  Edward James Olmos

  Able, Pipers

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• I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

  Dennis Quaid

  World, Want, Series

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• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  Kyle Chandler

  Brother, Dad, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.

  Tom Trebelhorn

  Baseball, Team, Hey

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• Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...

  Harry Caray

  Chicago, World, Someday

  "Budweiser Turned Around This Incredible Cubs World Series Ad Overnight" by Michael Sebastian, www.esquire.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

  Jay Leno

  Inspirational, Chicago, Saws

  "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, October 4, 2008.

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

  George Will

  Leadership, Country, Jobs

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• You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Knows

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• Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

  Ishmael Reed

  Baseball, Chicago, United States

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• A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it's gonna spill.

  Mike Royko

  Glasses, Fans, Half

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• Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

  Ernie Banks

  Moving, Doors, Years

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