If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.

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

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago.

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

Baby it's you. You're the one I love. You're the one I need. You're the only one I see.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.