Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Zambrano

I will pitch the same way I pitch for the Cubs with less intensity.

Dave Roberts

I cut school in '84 to see the Cubs and Padres. This is my team. It's special. It's doubly special for me. I missed school to watch this team play. I had dreams of playing for the Padres.

Whitey Herzog

If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

Tony Oliva

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

Walter Russell

The cube and the sphere are the sole working tools of creation

I guess that stuff is for you guys. We just keep playing down at Cuba and keep working hard.

I'm happy for them that they won it. But it's still a Cubs town. I saw the celebration they had and the people who showed up. I can hardly imagine what would happen if the Cubs won it. I would love to be a part of that.

Maggie Lawson

I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.

Ozzie Guillen

I know there is a rivalry between the Cubs fans and the White Sox fans, but people have to know this is one city. On the chest, it doesn't say South Side or White Sox. It says Chicago.

Todd Walker

I love it here. I really got to see a different side of it yesterday. Going to the hospital and watching on TV, you see the other stuff that goes into the games. It made me realize why I love the Cubs as much as I do and why I want to play here.

The cheetah cubs are outrageously cute, a real treat to watch. And their physiology, a real sleek build.

The Cubs didn't provide much. There was a lot of McDonald's and Taco Bell. Guys didn't shop for fruits and vegetables. They used to shop at 7-Eleven.

The Cubs approached us with this opportunity, and it seemed to us a unique way to improve our presence in Chicago.

Miguel Tejada

The Cubans all could be major leaguers, they all could be good major leaguers.

The Cuban regime does not represent the people, nor does it have any interest in bettering their lives. Rather, the regime is obsessed with self-preservation.

Mark Buehrle

We're not even recognized in our own city, ... Everybody in this room knows it's a Cubs town.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes.

The next thing I knew, I was a Tiger Cub organizer. I've been involved with scouting ever since.

It's been great for her. She uses the CUB system to get around and always gets to practice on time.

No, there is no defection. The Cuban team is in very high spirits. The aspirations from when we left Havana have been multiplied.

It's an interactive unit, ... this flower that sort of perks up. We wanted to look at a cube and get a sense of welcome instead of 'Oh, my God, it's another day.'

Stephen Coonts

It's just people from various walks of life in Cuba and what might happen to them

Andy Garcia

A lot of people don't know about Cuban history, and I don't expect them to.

This is a Cuban sport being played at its best. We thought Venezuela (and the DR) were ... strong teams and they could have made it to the final. But they didn't; Cuba did. It seems to us that we deserve to be here.

John Sherman Cooper

There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.

I told you to be patient. This is Cuban baseball.

It was a wonderful show, what you saw in the field today. This is a Cuban sport being played at its best.

Venezuela and Cuba don't have anything at risk in Bolivia.

Al Hirt

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Fidel Castro

we remember forever for his deep caring, support and solidarity toward the Cuban people and our revolution.

Derrek Lee

We'll see tomorrow (Wednesday). The Cubs don't want me to play, but if I feel like I can play, I'm going to play. I'm not going to be stupid about it, but if I feel like I'm not hurting anything, I'm going to play.

We're hopeful that Cuba will be able to play.

Christopher Dodd

demonstrated that an honest and respectable discussion of differences between the United States and Cuba is possible.