Quotes About Baseball

The Cubs, we built one of best farm systems - I think for a while there, it was the best farm system in baseball. And that was great. It got a lot of attention. But we didn't want the credit for the farm system. What we wanted was to see if we could do the tricky part, which was turn a lauded farm system into a World Series champion.

The fact that guys adjusted really quickly to the big leagues, developed really quickly, faced adversity under the brightest spotlights, played great baseball, overcame so much, overcame centuries worth of issues and won a World Series, I guess it doesn't necessarily mean we're still not just prone to the laws of nature and reality and baseball.

Baseball is a business. Sure, we fans are wistful dreamers who fantasize about glory on the diamond, but to the people who hold the purse strings, the Cubs win the economic World Series every year.

At the end of the day, the most important goal is to get to the World Series and to win the World Series.

We play to win the World Series, and that's our goal.

Every year you go in and you obviously want to win a World Series, at least make the playoffs.

Winning the World Series is really all that we play this game for.

Getting to say you're going to the World Series is a pretty special thing.

Watching guys win the World Series looks like a lot of fun. I'd kind of like to do that.

I did the commercials for Gillette during the World Series and at one point I had 27 different beer contracts.

Growing up, you think about playing in the big leagues one day. But to this scale, and winning a World Series in your hometown, I don't think you could have planned that.

The pressure of the World Series and the playoffs, it gets to you. But I hope I feel like that every year. Because hopefully we're playing into November every year.

I would like to come back in the World Series. And I want to pitch better.

Baseball and its 162-game schedule are challenging enough, but try winning the world series of dugout poker with cards supplied by Royals owner David Glass, the Wal-Mart-trained billionaire.

Obviously, the World Series run in 2010, that's something you can only dream of as a kid, so to have it actually happen is just unbelievable.

It's so hard to win a World Series.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

By the 1880s, baseball was entrenched in the Cape's sandy soil. Semipro teams, commonplace before World War I, were organized into the first Cape Cod League in 1923 - Orleans joined the four original teams five years later. By 1940, the league had foundered on financial shoals and disbanded.

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.

There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.