White Sox Quotes

#1. I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#2. Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.

George Vecsey

#3. There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.

Mark Shapiro

#4. 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

#5. Molly Cade, you could be wearing a White Sox shirt, a Yankees thong, and a Packers Cheesehead and I would still want to do you."
She sighed. "Such a romantic.

Kate Meader

#6. On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.

Nellie Fox

#7. With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

Don Cooper

#8. There was some discussion, but nothing got close to being a reality. They asked for a lot and got a lot (from the White Sox).

Eric Wedge

#9. There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.

Waite Hoyt

#10. If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

Bill Veeck

#11. Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

Jean Shepherd

#12. The rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain

#13. Paul Konerko is one of the greatest players in White Sox history, not only for his strength and performance on the field, but also for his heart and leadership off the field.

Jerry Reinsdorf

#14. Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

George Vecsey

#15. I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees..

Gordon Beckham

#16. As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

Billy Corgan

#17. In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

John Bright

#18. One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Kahlil Gibran

#19. Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

Jean Anouilh

#20. Vice is a creature of such hideous mien ... that the more you see it the better you like it.

Finley Peter Dunne

#21. We slid down on our behinds, little avalanches of sand pouring around our feet and down our pants.

Ransom Riggs

#22. We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?

John F. Kerry