Top 98 Quotes About Cubs
#1. But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan
Steve Goodman
#2. The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.
Jerry Coleman
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series
Harry Caray
#7. 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
#8. Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.
Berkeley Breathed
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. In all of the history of professional sports, the Cubs are the ultimate symbol of complete failure.
John Scalzi
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.
Eugene H. Peterson
#16. Hey, how 'bout those Cubs'"-the bad male impersonation was back-" 'let's play some golf, smoke some cigars. Here's my penis, there's yours-yep, they appear to be about the same size-okay, lets's do some deals.
Julie James
#17. You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.
Pete Rose
#18. Three things never anger or you'll not live for long;
A wolf with cubs,
A man with power, And a woman's sense of wrong.
Mercedes Lackey
#19. Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,
Rudyard Kipling
#20. But how can an ordinary girl not know this? Had Varana's mother not bothered to teach her anything at all or just shouted complaints from a distance while her children fought and argued amongst themselves like wolf cubs?
Ruth Downie
#21. Have my cubs' is not the first thing a woman wants to hear.
Milly Taiden
#23. Dens of polar bears are collapsing in the thawing permafrost, which leaves tiny cubs dangerously exposed.25
Naomi Klein
#24. I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.
Jay Leno
#25. Two hours with my grandpa felt like eternity, but also like not long enough. I should have come sooner. I should have called him more this past year. I should have watched more Cubs games with him, and I should have been better at being his grandson.
Matthew Norman
#26. If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.
Tucker Elliot
#27. Wounded vanity can make a woman more vindictive than a lioness robbed of her cubs.
W. Somerset Maugham
#28. The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.
Tom Trebelhorn
#30. Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
Rob Sheffield
#31. I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.
Heidi Klum
#32. Did you know that in The Lion King, the hyenas - the bad guys - all speak in either black or Latino slang? And that the little cubs are told not to go where the hyenas live?" He looks at me, amused. "Do you realize that Scar, the villain, is darker than Mufasa?
Jodi Picoult
#33. Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!
Rudyard Kipling
#34. I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.
Jake Johnson
#35. The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.
Adrienne Rich
#36. given this time is not good." 8 Hushai continued, "You know your father and his men. They are warriors and are desperate like a wild bear robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier
Anonymous
#37. The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.
Joe Garagiola
#39. I love Chicago, but I didn't think I had enough soul to be a Cubs fan.
Emmylou Harris
#40. I'm gonna get in his face, Jackie whispered her threat and Colt couldn't help it, he smiled into his phone. Jackie got a hold of him, hatchet or not, Denny Lowe didn't stand a chance. A lioness was lethal when her cubs were under threat.
Kristen Ashley
#41. I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.
Dennis Quaid
#42. [On the Chicago Cubs:] Being a Cubs fan prepares you for life - and Washington.
Hillary Clinton
#43. to be a Cubs fan is both a birthright and a curse.
Jason Diamond
#44. What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.
Harry Caray
#46. 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
#48. He ain't my friend,' Harry said. 'Not no more, he ain't.'
Strax leaned across to Jenny. 'At what age do these cubs become grammatical?' he demanded.
'Depends,' she told him. 'At what age do Sontarans become pacifists?
Justin Richards
#49. I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.
Vince Vaughn
#50. 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
#51. So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married.
But that is a story for grown-ups.
Rudyard Kipling
#52. The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.
Eric Byrnes
#53. I've always thought of myself as an Expo. I probably had better seasons with the Cubs. The fan base and the bleacher bums at Wrigley Field were so enthusiastic compared to later years with the Expos.
Andre Dawson
#54. 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
#55. 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.
Bruce Sutter
#56. The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.
Rudyard Kipling
#57. The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
Bill Vaughan
#58. The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.
Ernie Banks
#59. The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.
Pete Rose
#60. All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
Dizzy Dean
#61. Frank waved his arms in a frustrated gesture. "The Cubs? C-U-B-S, Cubs? Doesn't that stand for 'Completely Useless By September'?
Kim Stokely
#62. Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind;
The foul cubs like their parents are.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#63. If I worried about appearances, I wouldn't be at Cubs games.
Billy Corgan
#64. Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
Karen Finerman
#65. Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
Rudyard Kipling
#66. I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.
James Belushi
#67. I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.
James Patterson
#68. I'm certainly thankful for what the Cubs did for me. I respect their organization. It's the same way with the Atlanta Braves, an awfully fine organization. I respect everybody who's down there, and that's still where I live today. But the Cardinals represent the best years of my career.
Bruce Sutter
#69. Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served.
Herman Melville
#70. 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
#71. Orioles fought with tigers, blue jays battled against angels, bear cubs warred with giants, and none of it made any sense. A baseball player was a man, and yet once he joined a team he was turned into an animal, a mutant being, or a spirit who lived in heaven next to God. According
Paul Auster
#72. 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.
George Vecsey
#73. I am a Cuban mother, and you do not let your cubs get into trouble without you trying to help them all the way.
Cristina Saralegui
#74. I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.
Jack Brickhouse
#75. If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.
Steve Goodman
#76. Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors - or worse, release me.
Ron Santo
#77. Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
George Will
#78. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
George Orwell
#80. 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
#81. 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.
Maggie Lawson
#82. In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.
Marianne Williamson
#83. Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells.
Trevor O'Hoy
#84. Tucker: "Today we ran into a mama grizzly with two cubs at the ridge off Colter Bay and Clara sang to it to make it go away."
Mrs. Avery: You sang to it?
Tucker: Her singing is that bad.
Cynthia Hand
#85. On September 7th, after the Cubs dropped Game Three, the two teams boarded the Michigan Central together to embark on the twenty-seven hour trip, and Babe Ruth got drunk and started stealing hats.
Dennis Lehane
#87. At about this time the Asiatic wolf, a fierce predator that despite its small size would eat a human if it had the opportunity, came under human control because its friendly young cubs could be fed and trained. A dangerous adversary was turned into a dedicated helper - the dog.
Mark Kurlansky
#88. 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
#89. Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.
George Will
#90. Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.
Sun Tzu
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
Bob Verdi
#94. 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)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#95. I wonder how the Cubs are doing.
Andy Weir
#96. All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.
George Will
#97. With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.
Hee-seop Choi
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