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It's a totally different adrenaline rush when you're coming in from the pen....You have to be a mentally tough human being to come in when the game's on the line.

Oscar Carlos Acosta
Chicago Cubs
Pitching Coach

He was electric. He's too young and stupid to understand what he just did. He's just a baby. He's only 20, for crying out loud.

on Kerry Wood's 20 strikeout game, May 5, 1998.

Mark Eugene Grace
Chicago Cubs
1B
Contributed by: Jonathan Chapman

They should just start the games in the eighth or ninth inning here. That's when all the wierd things start happening.

After an extra-inning victory that was made possible by scoring five runs on one hit in the ninth

May 10, 2000
Ricky Gutierrez
Chicago Cubs
IF

I always had a distinct hate for the Dodgers myself. Most of the guys were banty rooster types, "We're the Dodgers" types...(Pee Wee) Reese was a hell of a ball player, great ball player, but he was one of the best agitators in the world. And Gene Mauch, he was one of those little banty roosters, too. Mauch was just like all those other little guys. There are very few tiny men in sports that aren't cocky as hell or tough as hell, one or the other.

Robert Howard "Bobby" Sturgeon
Chicago Cubs
SS

I owe him a lot. Nobody would know how good I was at digging balls out of the dirt if it wasn't for him and all those bad throws.

On his teammate, SS Shawon Dunston

Mark Eugene Grace
Chicago Cubs
1B

Of course you can. You could trade him to the New York Yankees for Tino Martinez and Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada and El Duque. Yeah, that's a pretty good trade, isn't it?

Whether the Cubs could improve themselves by trading Sammy Sosa

June 2000

Mark Eugene Grace
Chicago Cubs
1B

I'm not thinking about age. I'm thinking about the game and what I need to do. Age doesn't matter. If you can do it, you can do it. I think I took the right attitude into the season (at Class AAA) and kept it every start. I didn't change. I just wanted to attack hitters.

Upon becoming the youngest player in the majors at the time (age 20) and appearing unfazed prior to making his MLB debut

July 4, 2000

Jon Steven Garland
Chicago White Sox
Pitcher

What a hell of a league this is. I hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and I ain't won nothin' yet!

After the 1912 season, and not having won a batting championship despite his tremendous performance

Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
Chicago White Sox
OF

You don't think about where your hands should be. You don't try to guess what the next pitch will be. You don't worry about anything. You just stand there and react. You look for the ball, and you hit the ball. It's really simple.

Describing what it is to be in a zone

Jermaine Terrell Dye
Chicago White Sox
RF

He threw one in my wheelhouse, and being the power hitter that I am, I hit it over the fence like I usually do.

Taking a ride on the sarcasm train after hitting his eighth home run of the season

July 25, 2000

Mark Eugene Grace
Chicago Cubs
1B

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