The Cubs Way Quotes

“The beauty of baseball is multidimensional, appealing to the eye and the mind. There is beauty, for instance, in its geometry, the space between the bases and the fielders; beauty in the arc of the season, which brings us out of doors to gather, until fall calls us back in; and beauty in its democracy, that each player hits in turn. But one of its greatest beauties is that, more than any other sport, it emboldens an expertise from those who watch it. Everybody can manage. That does not happen as easily in other sports. In”
― Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

“Change before you have to.—Jack Welch Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.—Doug Larson Communication creates collaboration. Big ears are better than big egos. When you’re not listening, ask good questions.—Bill Walsh The”
― Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

“Force, in overabundance, is the enemy of artistry.”
― Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

“The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains through old age to the last breath.”
― Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

“Their 108-year wait for another title was the longest championship drought in sports. The last time they did win the World Series, in 1908, occurred in the lifetimes of Mark Twain, Florence Nightingale, Geronimo, Winslow Homer, and Joshua Chamberlain, and in a world when the Ottoman Empire still existed but the 19th Amendment, talking motion pictures, electrified traffic lights, and world wars did not.”
― Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse

“That's how behind we were, one employee said. We were killing a lot of trees in the digital age.”
― Tom Verducci, The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse