Best Cubs Quotes

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I’ve always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem… Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

I’m a Cub fan, and I sit up here and I know when we have a good team, I know when we’re struggling, and it affects me just like any other fan, and I just happen to show it on the radio. I can’t help it.

Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors – or worse, release me.

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

You know what God told the Cubs? Don’t do anything until I come back.

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind;
The foul cubs like their parents are.

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George’s mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that’s when some say her hair turned white.

I’ve always thought of myself as an Expo. I probably had better seasons with the Cubs. The fan base and the bleacher bums at Wrigley Field were so enthusiastic compared to later years with the Expos.

The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.

There is an energy that you carry when you’re nurturing another life where you’re protecting first – and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter’s gun, you can be a little more daring.

Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells.

I’m a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.

It truly feels great to be a Cub today.

Unless you enter the tiger’s lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger’s cub’s.

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he’s with Sacramento… he’s on the team. I ain’t going.

I have great memories of being a Cub, and I’m happy building new ones with the Phillies.

It didn’t happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it’s just a shame we didn’t go to a World Series for Cub fans.

A Pessimist sees the glass as half empty; A Cub Fan wonders when it’s gonna spill.

I met Princess Anne once at a charity do and she said Blue Peter made her realise TV was all lies – she’d gone to Africa on safari with Valerie Singleton and they didn’t see a thing, but when she watched it on TV they’d edited in some lion cubs. I was like, ‘Oh dear.’ I still don’t know if she was joking or not.

You never know what’s going to happen the rest of the way. You can’t predict. You don’t know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don’t know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs’ coffin.

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

A roar cut through the melee: a booming growl, a noise that might come out of a she-bear protecting a cub. It was Alec- and suddenly bodies were flying everywhere.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

I didn’t realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.