Ernie Banks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!”

“The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.”

“People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.”

“I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.”

“It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.”

“The Cubs are due in sixty-two.”

“No, I think the pitching today has more depth.”

“Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.”

“Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.”

“It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.”