Optimism Quotes by Ernie Banks

Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.

— Ernie Banks

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

— Ernie Banks

That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after…

— Ernie Banks

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

— Ernie Banks

It's a beautiful day for a ballgame... Let's play two!

— Ernie Banks

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

— Ernie Banks

The Cubs are due in sixty-two.

— Ernie Banks

I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago Cubs organization…

— Ernie Banks

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

— Ernie Banks

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

— Ernie Banks

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing…

— Ernie Banks

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

— Ernie Banks