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

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.

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

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'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.

I don't want to be in the clubhouse, if I have the coronavirus or something like that, coming into the clubhouse and spread to everybody, that's not good, right?

I want to become the type of pitcher any one in the world can say is the world's best pitcher.

I am a baseball player and I enjoy getting batters out and that is what I want to continue doing.

I almost feel like I grew up and was raised in America now, because I'm so comfortable here.