Quotes

Cub fans, players, associates, managers, reporters, deejays, and even people who would never set a foot in front of Wrigley Field - quotes that have somehow become famous or are just plain funny. Here they are:

"There's a drive, way back - it might be out of here! It is! He did it again! He did it again! Oh, the game is tied! Unbelievable! How about that! Listen to this crowd! Everybody has gone bananas! Holy cow!"
 --Harry Caray on a Ryne Sandburg home run

"I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time."
 --Babe Ruth on Wrigley Field

"Chicago fans are the greatest fans in baseball. They've got to be."
 --Herman Franks, 1978

"Every time I go to town
The boys all kick my dog around
Makes no difference if he's a hound
You better stop kicking my dog around."
 Theme Song of the Bleachers Bums

"One thing you learn as a Cubs fan: When you bought your ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth inning."
 --Joe Garagiola

"I knew we would be better. We couldn't be any worse."
 --Mark Grace in 1998, after the 68-94 season in 1997

"There's nothing wrong with this team that more pitching, more fielding and more hitting couldn't help."
 --Bill Buckner

"Have you heard about the new Chicago Cubs fan doll? Wind it up and it snores."
 --Tiger Lyons, humorist

"The Cubs were taking batting practice, and the pitching machine threw a no-hitter."
 --Radio deejay

"Would the lady who left her nine kids at Wrigley Field please pick them up immediately? They are beating the Cubs 4-0 in the 7th inning."
 --Radio deejay

"Puttin lights in Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel."
 --Roger Simon, sportswriter

"Noise pollution can't be that much of a problem. There's nothing to cheer about."  --State rep. John F. Dunn, arguing for the installation of lights at Wrigley Field

"The first time I tried it with the lights on, it was pretty much a washout, too."
 --David Letterman, after the first night game in Cubs history was rained out

"CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!"
 --Harry Caray, after, well, the Cubs won

...and some more quotes by or about:

Ernie Banks

Sammy Sosa

Harry Caray


   

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