Disappointment Quote by Theo Epstein

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove.…

— Dennis Eckersley

“Flipped through memories like old copies of National Geographic, pages in a yellowing high-school year book, cable-television channels looking for a baseball game.”

— Dennis Vickers

When people look back on me and my career, I'd like them to say I was one of the people who helped start something…

— Brook Lopez

I loved the city of Chicago, and I love the Reinsdorfs. I'm forever grateful for them in taking a chance on me, allowing me…

— Jimmy Butler

Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.

— Scottie Pippen

I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to…

— Eddy Alvarez

I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although…

— Craig Sager

I had been on a lot of losing teams. Always rebuilding.

— Nick Young

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably…

— Franco Harris

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan…

— Bailey Chase

I realized in the five years off, what I missed was being around the young people, the organization, the practice, the fourth quarter of…

— Mack Brown

For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through…

— Dan Quinn