I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

See the ball; hit the ball.

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.

Do you know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Concentration is the ability to not think about anything.

Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

Creating success is tough. But keeping it is tougher. You have to keep producing, you can't ever stop.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

You'd be surprised how many shortcomings can be overcome by hustle.

My kids and wife love Chicago, especially the kids. Yu Darvish

I can throw strikes any time.

Kids used to say stuff all the time about how I was different.

I want to remind people with dogs that they are your responsibility.