Top 35 Quotes by Ryne Sandberg

I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I struggled many times when maybe it didn't look like I was struggling, and I had to work hard every day.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.

The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform.

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.