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It's a horse-(bleep) job. If you win, you get paid two million dollars. If you lose, you get fired.

On managing a major league baseball team

Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillen
Chicago White Sox
Manager

When I see Wally Joyner, Ken Caminiti and Jose Canseco talk about it, they make me puke. They're full of (bleep). You know why? Whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. I see these former players talking (bleep) about the game, and it's not right.

On former baseball players talking about steroids

Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillen
Chicago White Sox
Manager

They think they know baseball, but they don't know (bleep). If people on the radio were so smart, they'd be in the (bleep) dugout with me. Every time the media second-guesses you, it's after something happens, not before.

On sports radio

Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillen
Chicago White Sox
Manager

It's hard to put your finger on it. You have to have a dullness of mind and spirit to play here. I went through pyschoanalysis and that helped me deal with my Cubness.

Reflecting back on his years with the Chicago Cubs

James Patrick "Jim" Brosnan
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

The only bad thing about being released by the Cubs is that they made me keep my season tickets.

Kenneth John "Ken" Reitz
Chicago Cubs
3B

Through the scoreboard? You can't see through the scoreboard because there were so many numbers on it.

After the Cardinals accused the White Sox of stealing signs from the center-field scoreboard during 20-6 and 13-5 Sox victories

Oswaldo José "Ozzie" Guillen
Chicago White Sox
Manager

A teacher and a leader, he was all of that and more. He signed me to my first contract with the Cubs, and then he walked me into the Hall of Fame. He was the most positive person that I have ever been around. I transferred that into my life. What he did with his mind and his heart and his spirit...he wanted to bridge the gap of black baseball players playing in the major leagues. He scouted me and Lou Brock, Billy Williams, and just about every black player who played baseball back then. He scouted Pumpsie Green, who was the first black player for the Boston Red Sox, and Elston Howard, who was the first black player for the Yankees. He saw them and he identified their talent. He helped build my confidence so I would know what to do and what to say and where to go -- all of that. Then when he came to the Cubs as a coach, I was changing from shortstop to first base and he helped me make that transition. It was almost like he was put on this earth just for me. The travesty was that Buck O'Neil was not elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. All of those people whose lives he touched and played with...it is a travesty. It really hurt my heart. It hurt me. I wish I could surrender my election to baseball's Hall of Fame to him, because I always felt that he deserved it more than I did.

Upon Buck O'Neil's death in October, 2006, and with reference to the 94-year-old falling one vote short of election to the Hall of Fame the preceding February

Ernest "Ernie" Banks
Chicago Cubs
SS
HOF 1977; a.k.a. "Mr. Cub"

Sure I steal bases. I just like to do it 4 at a time.

A tongue-in-cheek reference to his slugging prowess

Paul Henry Konerko
Chicago White Sox
1B

Years ago it was different. In today's world, for whatever reason, pitchers don't shake off catchers a whole lot. I like to see a pitcher who has a good enough understanding and feeling for the game that he knows what pitches he wants to throw in which situations....that no matter what the catcher puts down, it doesn't mean anything to you because you know what you want to do.

June, 2007
Lawrence Lee "Larry" Rothschild
Chicago Cubs
Pitching Coach

Having a little chip on your shoulder, a little arrogance with yourself. That's what I think is the little intangible that helps you win.

February 18, 2008
James Howard "Jim" Thome
Chicago White Sox
DH
HOF 2018

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