Chicago 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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• Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.

  Nelson Algren

  Spring, Cities, Chicago

  "Chicago: City on the Make" by Nelson Algren, University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7, 1987.

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• I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.

  Emmylou Harris

  Thinking, Soul, Chicago

  "Like baseball, Emmylou Harris is back". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

  George Will

  Illinois, Chicago, Fans

  "Baseball". Documentary, History, Sport, 1994–2010.

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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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• 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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• Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

  George Will

  Chicago, Fans, Tissues

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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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• 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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• I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.

  Ernie Banks

  Running, Baseball, Mother

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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'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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• I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

  Sara Paretsky

  Chicago, Cubs, Dies

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Baseball, Chicago, Fans

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• These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Play, Bird, Bears

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”

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• The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

  Joe Garagiola

  Chicago, Action, Singles

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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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• 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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