 Hit a home run - put your head down, drop the bat, run around the bases, because the name on the front is more - a lot more important than the name on the back. |
| If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera. |
| I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that. |
| I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been important to me and I think it's always been special. |
| It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans. |
| A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation. |
| No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen. |
| My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me. |
| I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am. |
| There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years. |
| In baseball, there's always the next day. |
| I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel. |
| The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform. |
| I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day. |
| Baseball wasn't easy for me. |
| There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me. |
| I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college. |
| When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game? |
| My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine. |
| The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played. |
