Cubs Quotations

If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.

Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers.

The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

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

I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.

I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

When you walked on the field, you felt like playing baseball. The electricity, the atmosphere, and it was always good baseball. Because it was the Cardinals, you always moved to another level. I think both teams did that. And the fans are just like Cubs fans, very knowledgeable.

We'll see tomorrow (Wednesday). The Cubs don't want me to play, but if I feel like I can play, I'm going to play. I'm not going to be stupid about it, but if I feel like I'm not hurting anything, I'm going to play.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

We had been talking to the Cubs for a long time about doing this,

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

Oh, yeah, people were saying Cubs fans came down and stole the birds from the billboards. That just added to the fun.

Of course there's pressure. I know it's been a long time since the Cubs have produced any good position players, but that's not our fault. We just have to do what we're capable of doing. Hopefully, five or 10 years down the road, we can look back and say, 'See what we started?' But for now, we have to live in the moment and help the Cubs win this season.

Obviously, I think at some point an organization has to look at the importance of stability. I don't think Cubs have ever really spent time doing that. There's always been a big turnover in personalities.

I don't know why people are writing the Cubs aren't in it because they have to trade Sammy Sosa first.

I don't care if you're a Cubs fan, a Bulls fan, a Bears fan. I think a lot of people now are Chicago fans,

I cut school in '84 to see the Cubs and Padres. This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres.

I lost a good friend, ... He was a good Cubs fan like myself and we spent a lot of sad and some happy days there (Wrigley Field).

I love central Iowa. There's so much to do, so many great people. The sports scene from girls' basketball to the Iowa Cubs to teams at Wells Fargo Arena is really high right now.

I have a lot of fondness in my heart for Corey. I feel badly at what happened last year. I certainly will try to do what's best for the Cubs first and what's best for Corey second.

I felt all 88 of those years. I think I even felt the years that the Cubs haven't won on my shoulders.

I felt all 88 of those years, and felt all those years the Cubs haven't won.

He's confident he will still be playing at a high level then. The Braves made a good effort and the Cubs did too. He turned down longer terms from other teams. We probably could have gotten close to this much money and twice as many years. But this was the right thing and the right team.

He's a great guy and a great player. I loved playing with him. He's a very competitive guy who did a great job handling the pitching staff. He was really swinging the bat well and I think he'll do a great job with the Cubs and have a great year.

Just like the Cubs fans say, there's always next year.

I went into spring training that first year (with the Cubs) in '82 and No. 23 was hanging up in my locker, ... I thought it was kind of an odd number. I believe I asked for 14 and (former Cubs clubhouse manager Yosh Kawano) totally turned me down and said that number's been taken and retired.

I will do that. Everything that matters right now is that I'm with the Cubs, and I'm in a good position now. I don't have to get hurt. Like I said, my main concern is to be with the Cubs and help the Cubs.

I will pitch the same way I pitch for the Cubs with less intensity.

I went to the Cubs six, seven times and said, 'Will you please allow me to interview for this job?'

Some of the things written about Dusty and him wanting to leave the Cubs a year ago were completely unfounded. I think people had him in two or three different places he certainly never had any interest in going.

It follows a set of regulars that come to the Wrigley Field bleachers every Chicago Cubs game. Most of them have quirky little personalities; most of them are addicted in some way, shape or form to gambling. There is a lot of gambling going on, betting on just about everything from who's going to score next to who's going to get on first base to who's going to catch a fly ball.

Well, I'll tell you, about a year ago in November the National Zoo had its first litter of cheetah cubs born. And when we had them debut, the very first day, we had over about 2,500 people file through just for them. And I don't mean to make it a popularity contest, but they were nowhere near as popular before their debut as this panda cub.

We wanted to make sure that these moms would not kill them. So we pulled them. We found hand-rearing these cubs would help. They have been socialized to people.

We know that Cubs and Cardinals fans will still be targeting these games to buy tickets. It's disheartening for the players to see the ballpark invaded by visiting supporters, and we're asking for our fans to take early action in helping to reverse this trend.

We're not even recognized in our own city, ... Everybody in this room knows it's a Cubs town.

Well, I wore a Cubs hat, ... Remember, these are baseball games.

We have more bears having more cubs and we have bears that are in places where they haven't been in 50 years.

Fans have grown weary of the complacency that surrounded the Cubs. I know from my buddy back home. He's 42 and he's been a Cubs fan all his life. He feels like he's going to have a coronary attack every time we lose. Cubs fans love this team. They're not front-runners. And now that the White Sox have won the World Series, the quest to win a championship is on the tip of (Cubs fans') brains.

Fans have grown weary of the complacency that surrounded the Cubs for years.

Fans have grown weary of the complacency that surrounded the Cubs for all these years. Cubs fans love this team. ... Now with the White Sox having won the World Series, their quest for this team to win the championship is on the tip of their brain.

Fans are relatively resilient in coping with loss. If we weren't, there would be no Cubs fans.

But like the two cubs born here before her, the new Su Lin dramatizes the importance of working to make the world more secure for wild populations.

We all know the Red Sox did not win a World Series for 86 years after unloading Ruth, and the Cubs just might be carrying some heavy weight for past karmic transgressions.

Every time I look at that flag flying, I'll think of the Cubs fans that were there for me every day. You have never let me down, and for that I will never forget you.

Big difference. All of the fans wanted my autograph, not just the Cubs fans or the National League fans.

The rivalry between the Cubs and the White Sox, as soon as you take the field, you try to play better against them. I know this is a big deal for Chicago fans.

Some females don't move their cubs at all, ... We may try moving the cub ourselves to see how she reacts.

This is a plus for the Cubs to get Pierre. He's a young man who runs hard all the time and plays hard all the time. He's willing to learn and very dedicated to improving himself. It makes it easy to work with a person like that. I'm looking forward to that. He's a good young man.

This is an opportunity for fans to secure their tickets to great games in prime locations before individual tickets go on sale. By dropping the marquee pricing for the Cubs and Cardinals games, we are offering another incentive to Wisconsin residents to pack the park with Brewers fans on those days.

This is a team that really gets up for this series, and it's a great series to play in and watch. You definitely can't take the Cubs lightly at all.

They're just passionate about it. Their parents and their parents' parents probably were big Cubs fans and Red Sox fans. It's just carried down through the generations.

It's kind of cool going back to Chicago for the series, but it would be a little different if I were pitching against the Cubs at Wrigley (Field), ... (I'm) just going to a city that I'm really comfortable in.

It was a wonderful play, and I was just enthusiastic about the Cubs playing well and getting the chance to come back, which they eventually did. I forgot about the rule. The man was very nice about it. I don't think he knew who I was, but I said I was sorry. I should have known.

It's not quite the same as in Boston because it's a one-team town. I'm sure there are some Cubs fans who aren't happy, but it's just a wonderful thing for our city. I can't wait to get back.

For 16 years in Toronto we thought he was a good scout. It only took the Cubs one month to figure how bad he was.

It looks like it's favorable, but it's not, ... Those teams have played us very well. It would be an absolute mistake for us to think this is favorable. Milwaukee's played us tough, and Pittsburgh's played us tough and the Cubs can play us tough. ... These guys will play us good, and we can not expect anything to be given to us. That's a fact.

It means he's doing his job because he's on base. You have to be on base to score runs. The more times he scores, the better off the Chicago Cubs are.

Oh, poor Chicago. That's a long time ago. You think about a big city like this, and you think there's something wrong. The Cubs in 1984 -- you couldn't believe that could happen.

It will be different. I'll be standing against that brick wall, making a lot of decisions tonight. It's great. This is where it all started for me. I was drafted by the Cubs and played my first game here in 1989.

The Lady Cubs remembered they were a team and that they needed to work towards that common goal. These players never cease to amaze me. They are a hard working bunch, on and off the bench.

The fans are enthusiastic, so it's fun to come here and play well. The Cubs have hit me before, but tonight I threw strikes and the guys played defense behind me. And he (Pena) has hit the ball hard all year. I was grateful he did it again.

I love it here. I really got to see a different side of it yesterday. Going to the hospital and watching on TV, you see the other stuff that goes into the games. It made me realize why I love the Cubs as much as I do and why I want to play here.

In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else.

In many ways, this was improbable. But when you go 88 years, it's time. I felt all 88 of those years. In fact, I think that I even felt the years that the Cubs haven't won, too, on my shoulder.

I know we're going to have to get better in the middle part of the diamond. With that in mind and if we get the pitching that we think we have and can add to that, it'll make this organization a lot stronger and give Jim and the Cubs a lot more resources if there are deals that have to be made.

I know there is a rivalry between the Cubs fans and the White Sox fans, but people have to know this is one city. On the chest, it doesn't say South Side or White Sox. It says Chicago.

I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.

I'm happy for them that they won it. But it's still a Cubs town. I saw the celebration they had and the people who showed up. I can hardly imagine what would happen if the Cubs won it. I would love to be a part of that.

In the short term, there's revenue, obviously. But long term, we're creating more Cubs fans.

Cheetahs in Iran live on a knife-edge in very marginal habitat. The fact that this female has managed to raise four cubs to six months of age is extremely encouraging.

Cheetahs in Iran live on a knife-edge in very marginal habitat, ... The fact that this female has managed to raise four cubs to six months of age is extremely encouraging.

Chicago people are kind of fatalistic, but they continue to hope that somehow, some way the Cubs will shock even them and win it just one time. Their fatalism allows them to enjoy the team's success, knowing that one horrible thing will happen down the line to rip the rug out from underneath them.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

I consider Iowa football like I consider the Chicago Cubs. Cubs fans are always there, and we're the same way here.

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

It truly feels great to be a Cub today,

You risked the cub? (Dev) He’s not just a cub. (Aimee) You’re right. He’s the passenger who fell off the short bus. (Dev)

You could probably tell me better than I'd know, but the Bears fans may have been different than Cubs fans,

This is no longer a slum neighborhood. I haven't heard of a Cubs fan being shot in a long time.- Anonymous Wrigley Field Neighbor, Chicago, IL

The cheetah cubs are outrageously cute, a real treat to watch. And their physiology, a real sleek build.

The Cubs have played us so tough all year, ... We had (Greg) Maddux going against us so we knew it would be a hellacious ballgame and it was.

The Cubs have got all these people in short shorts calling each other on their cell phone. The Sox have got all these people watching the game.

The Cubs have a huge following everywhere, and they feel comfortable coming here because they know we do a good job.

The Cubs didn't provide much. There was a lot of McDonald's and Taco Bell. Guys didn't shop for fruits and vegetables. They used to shop at 7-Eleven.

The Cubs approached us with this opportunity, and it seemed to us a unique way to improve our presence in Chicago.

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

Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells.

If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

There is no harm in a man's cub.