Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

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.

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.

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

​The human brain creates everything that you are.

Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

You can turn your goals into gold.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.

God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept