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I'm looking forward to playing for him. Hopefully he'll get to manage some real baseball now. Coors Field is not real baseball.

With reference to new Cubs Manager Don Baylor's managing experience with the Colorado Rockies

November 1, 1999
Mark Eugene Grace
Chicago Cubs
1B

You must try to generate happiness within yourself.  If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

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

Contributed by: Robert Ford

It's universally felt in our business this year that the demand for pitching outpaces the supply. There just aren't that many good guys out there.

A modern-time reflection on an age-old baseball sentiment

December 1999
Edward Francis "Ed" Lynch
Chicago Cubs
General Manager
Former MLB pitcher

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

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 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

I'm here to play 162. I'm scared to take a day off. The day I take off is the day I can go 5 for 5. Nobody can take me out of there. Nope. That's the way it's got to be.

Samuel Peralta "Sammy" Sosa
Chicago Cubs
OF

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