Quotes About Chicago Cubs

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

Harry Caray

#2. 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

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

Sara Paretsky

#4. 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

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

George Will

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Hillary Clinton

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

Joe Garagiola

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

Jay Leno

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

J.K. Rowling

#15. 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

#16. My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. 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

#18. You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

Don Hewitt

#19. As was his language so was his life.

Seneca The Younger

#20. Humans: Nature's remedy for an otherwise good time.

J.R. Ward

#21. Coincidence", he finally said. "Statisticans looking for connections can always find odd coincidences and statistical anomalies, if they try hard enough.

Brandon Sanderson

#22. I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

William Baldwin

#23. 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

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

Jason Diamond

#25. It was a temporary state of grace, this upwelling of suspense and happiness, but I knew that every feeling I'd ever had was and would be temporary.

Christine Sneed

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

Emmylou Harris

#27. Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. A disconcerting image of the cameraman thrown in a shallow grave passed through my sights; he sat up in the dark and noticed the blanket of his bed was made of sod.

Patti Smith

#29. One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

Michael Flanders

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

Tucker Elliot

#31. That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

David Amram

#32. Few sagging houses whose stones had lost their mortar and were held together only by gravity and habit,

Louis De Bernieres

#33. 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