Todd Walker Quotations

When it comes down to who's playing second, it's going to be their own opinion. I can't put words in anybody's mouth. It's whatever they want. I just have to make it tough on them, to do the best I can this month.

We're just in a funk and we can't seem to find a way out of it. The last inning, we bust out of it and hopefully that will carry over.

With Wood and Prior in there, we'd be pretty tough. But we've got some young guys who really throw the ball well.

Yesterday I did. I want my name to be in the paper because I hit two homers and I went 4-for-4, not because of any other reason. I understand that this whole second base thing is a controversy. That's fine. I want you to understand that if I'm on the bench and somebody else is playing, I'm going to be pulling for him. I'm not going to be talking bad about anybody. I love my teammates, I love this team.

When I came over here, I knew Dusty plays everybody. You need that. With a long season, you need guys healthy and rested. The more guys you have, the better you'll be.

I don't think it's a seller's market. I think you wait to see how the rest of this month goes. You cruise into September and you have a better idea. You don't go off selling people now or you are quitting right now. Now is not the time.

He was the type of player that every one of us wanted to be like. We're really gonna miss him.

He's hitting the ball great since he came back,

It almost shocks me to look at our record and know the team we have. To me, it doesn't match up. But it is what it is, and we are going to continue to battle.

It'd be nice to get back to .500 and see where we are at, ... If we could reel off six or seven wins in a row, conceivably we'd have a chance.

That was a good test right there. I was telling Dusty, you never really know. You come out here and run, and you're conscious of it. When you're in the game, that's when the test comes, and I feel good.

You know, it's not the best thing in the world that can happen, but we're all grown adults. He didn't do well and probably expected what happened. Life goes on.

We don't have the luxury of feeling sorry for ourselves. We have to play 120 percent, which is what we do every single game. In this business, you have to keep rolling. Nobody feels sorry for you.

When people have no place to put something, it ends up in the garage or closet. A large percentage say they're going to do something about it - that's where we come into play.

We work with customers to help them develop their own unique system.

But lately it's been good, then you start thinking it's been unfortunate we didn't have him all year.

It was an out in any other circumstance, ... David Weathers is a good pitcher. I was lucky to get the ball in play.

Do you know something I don't? You're throwing things out at me that are out of left field. You don't think about that stuff. You think about things you can control.

As long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, which is catch the balls I'm supposed to catch, then I'm happy.

That's why I love playing here. You work so hard to get to (the World Series) and if, in fact, it comes about, there's only a few cities that really, truly genuinely appreciate that. There's only a few teams that I want to win a World Series with. Boston was one, and Chicago is another.

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 petty stuff that might take a week or two to heal, and, unfortunately, we've only got a week left.

You think about how unfortunate it is that we didn't have him all year.

I'm going to try that during the year, too.

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.

I like first. It's relaxing for me. Up the middle is pretty tense. At first, you're fighting complacency.

If I were to get traded tomorrow, I think the team is responsible for my rent in Chicago for six months. That's why I tried to get the rent as high as possible, so if that happened they would have to think twice about it.

If you're afraid of a little competition, you should go back and play softball somewhere. I'm all about it. And in the end, if Jerry's out there, I'm going to pull for him.

I just have to make it tough on them.

If I'm on the bench and somebody else is playing, I'm going to be pulling for him. I'm not going to be talking bad about anybody.

I can only speak for myself, ... but if people are paying to come out and watch, then you owe them the best you have. That's the way I look at it, and that's what I'm going to do.

I came to photography with the desire to conquer this machine, the camera, and make it my slave. Instead, I have now a respect for it and all machines as expanders of my awareness.

Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.

I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.

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

The greatest thing about Chad is football is not the No. 1 thing in his life, and baseball's not the No. 1 thing in my life. If it doesn't work out, you did the best you could and you move on.