It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.
Baseball is a poorly run business.
I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.
I have been blessed with a bunch of great kids, grandchildren, and daughters-in-law. It's been a great life. I know I am probably in the fourth quarter, but I am hoping for triple overtime.
We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.
I do sincerely hope the Cubs win a World Series. After I die.
People say you make your own luck; I don't think that's the case, but maybe you contribute to your luck by recognizing it and taking advantage of it.
Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today.
One of my friends, picture of health, worked out his whole life, never had a weight problem. Calls me up one day and says, 'I have pancreatic cancer.' Gone. I've lost too many friends.
I don't see any baseball expansion right now. If it were up to me, I would contract two teams. But I certainly don't think expansion on the horizon.
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.
I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.
It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.
If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.
I am constantly the butt of jokes.
The team was supported by the fans, and the city was committed to a new building. But that wasn't good enough for Walter O'Malley. He had a better deal, and he passed up a good deal for a better one. I don't think that was right, because ownership of a ballclub is at least a semi-public trust.
