Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.
It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.
People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.