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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

  Ernie Banks

  Shining, Nine, Sixty

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• Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Kindness, Long

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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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• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  Bailey Chase

  Fans

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• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan.

  Kyle Chandler

  Chicago, Fans, Bears

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

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• My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.

  Amanda Holden

  Cat, Home, Years

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• My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.

  Billy Corgan

  World, Lines, Championship

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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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• 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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• That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Strong, Son

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

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