It was about 105 degrees in Chicago. And that’s a time when everybody gets tired. I came into the clubhouse, and everybody was sitting around, and I said, ‘Beautiful day. Let’s play two!’ And everybody looked at me like I was crazy. There were a couple of writers around, and they wrote that, and it stayed with me. Ernie Banks Read Quote
I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times. Ernie Banks Read Quote
Awards mean a lot, but they don’t say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. Ernie Banks Read Quote
I’d like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do. Ernie Banks Read Quote
I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them. Ernie Banks Read Quote
During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different. Ernie Banks Read Quote
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. Ernie Banks Read Quote
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. Ernie Banks Read Quote
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it. Ernie Banks Read Quote
