I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

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

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years

Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back.

My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me

You must embrace change before change erases you.

Make no attachment, so you can flow freely.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

My health, thank God, has kept my brain alive.

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered.

I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!