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

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.

In baseball, there's always the next day

Let the one in least fear, lead.

Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

But listen up Alex Rider.