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There are more important things than money. My family is here....Wrigley Field offers a lot of day games. It's nice to be home for breakfast and it's nice to be home for dinner.

On returning to the Cubs for the 2000 season after playing several seasons on the Rockies and the Yankees

Joe Girardi
Chicago Cubs
C

The Cubs are paying me to be their No. 1 guy and that's what I expect to be. When you're an athlete, you live to play. And it's hard sitting on the bench, especially in the American League, because all our games (with the Yankees) were three and a half hours long.

Joe Girardi
Chicago Cubs
C

Run the (bleeping) ball out, you piece of (bleep).

To Yankee batter Deion Sanders when he stopped running to first after going only 20 feet from home on an infield pop-up, and making a statement on Deion's work ethic on the playing field

Carlton Ernest Fisk
Chicago White Sox
C
HOF 2000; a.k.a. "Pudge"

Yeah, that's true. I can see why he got out of the business.

After George W. Bush said his biggest mistake was when, as managing general partner for the Texas Rangers, he traded Sammy Sosa for Baines

Harold Douglas Baines
Chicago White Sox
OF
HOF 2019

Playing on 'Turf, I had sore knees, a sore back, a sore everything. The major advantage is that I won't wake up feeling like I just played a football game.

Believing the adjustment from AstroTurf in Houston to grass at Wrigley Field will not be difficult

Ricky Gutierrez
Chicago Cubs
IF

I didn't realize it was big until our first year and we got our butts beat. Then I said, 'No, no, no, no -- that can't happen anymore.'

Understanding the importance of the interleague White Sox vs. Cubs city series to Sox fans and now setting up pitching matchups as if it were a playoff series

Jerry Manuel
Chicago White Sox
Manager
Contributed by: Lee Gibbs

I don't care. Just give me the ball. Relievers are trained to react. We're like dogs.

Matthew Dean "Matt" Karchner
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

The most important thing about playing baseball is to have fun. I'm about to start my 13th year, but I can remember my rookie season like it was yesterday. It goes fast, folks.

March, 2000
Mark Eugene Grace
Chicago Cubs
1B

You're going from playing before 40,000 screaming people to hearing nothing but the crickets in the trees.

Describing being demoted to the minors

Alan Zinter
Chicago Cubs
Catcher

When I was a young guy, I knew to keep my mouth shut. That's the way it was. But guys are not like that anymore. Guys are loud as soon as they get here these days. That's the difference.

Noting how ten years earlier a rookie would never poke fun at a veteran in the clubhouse

Spring, 2000
Frank Edward Thomas
Chicago White Sox
1B/DH
HOF 2014; a.k.a., "The Big Hurt"

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