Red Schoendienst Quotations

I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks are better. In the days when I played, we had eight teams in each league. Now you have more.

Going from that old ballpark it was a real old one and coming over here was something. It was really a pleasure.

You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.

Look at all the memories we have here. I'm just glad we get to come back for some more baseball.

I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

This is still a good-looking park. But the new stadium will be better for the fans. It's not like we're going to another state or another city. We're going next door. I look at it as progress.

I'm not much of a jewelry man. I don't even wear a watch half the time.

I'm just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I'd have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let's forget about it. I'm a ballplayer.