Ernie Banks famous quotes

05-12-2025

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
-- Ernie Banks

#Passion
I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.
-- Ernie Banks

#Player #Debt #Way
The measure of a man is in the lives heâ€™s touched.
-- Ernie Banks

#Men #Measure Of A Man
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
-- Ernie Banks

#Happiness #Happy #Trying
The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.
-- Ernie Banks

#Games #Riches
It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!
-- Ernie Banks

#Baseball #Playing Games #Two
Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.
-- Ernie Banks

#Baseball #Character #Golf
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
-- Ernie Banks

#Sports #Athlete #Way
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
-- Ernie Banks

#Sports #Loyalty #Wealth
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.
-- Ernie Banks

#Baseball #Spring #Flower
Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.
-- Ernie Banks

#Sports #Baseball #Mean
When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.
-- Ernie Banks

#Morning #Wake Up #Paying Taxes
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.
-- Ernie Banks

#Patience #Years #People
It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.
-- Ernie Banks

#Philosophy #Energy #Kind
I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.
-- Ernie Banks

#Car
I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization that helped me and about the wonderful Chicago fans who have come out all these years to cheer me on. They've been a great inspiration to me.
-- Ernie Banks

#Running #Mother #Dad
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

#Sports #Business #Talking
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

#Sports #Player #Different
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

#Sports #Team #Two
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.
-- Ernie Banks

#Moving #Doors #Years
No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
-- Ernie Banks

#Thinking #Depth #Pitching
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
-- Ernie Banks

#Sports #Loyalty #Winning
The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.
-- Ernie Banks

#Shining #Nine #Cubs
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
-- Ernie Banks

#People
Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.
-- Ernie Banks

#Baseball #Playing Games #Way

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