Best Chicago Cubs Quotes

#1. to be a Cubs fan is both a birthright and a curse.

Jason Diamond

#2. I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.

Sara Paretsky

#3. It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.

Jacob Ruppert

#4. My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

Karen Fairchild

#5. I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Ben Elton

#6. 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

#7. Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

George Will

#8. Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
Feeney in Naked in Death

J.D. Robb

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. The world has gotten so interwoven.

Hans Blix

#13. Are you going to kiss me or not?"
He released the jacket. "Not," he rasped.
"Then I'll kiss you." Cupping his nape, she drew his head down, but
Nate laid his fingertips over her mouth.
"Some things you can't take back."
Claire lifted his hand. "Some things you don't want to.

Karina Bliss

#14. Nobody deserves to go to the World Series more than the Chicago Cubs. But they can't go because that would spoil their custom of never going. It is an irreconcilable paradox.

Bill Bryson

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

Hillary Clinton

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

Emmylou Harris

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

Joe Garagiola

#18. If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.

Tucker Elliot

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

Jay Leno

#20. In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

Terence Stamp

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. ...'at that time men began to call on the name of the Lord' (Genesis 4:26b) ... Seth and his line feared God and called on his name. Lamech, Cain's descendant, called only on his wives to hear his boasting (Genesis 4:23).

Samuel Ngewa

#25. Someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series

Harry Caray

#26. Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

Patrick Kane