Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lanny Poffo

Yes because he was signed in 1971 by the St. Louis Cardinals as a free agent and he spent four years in the minor leagues, just knocking about,

Larry Fitzgerald

It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.

Edith Head

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Red Schoendienst

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

Reggie Sanders

If the Cardinals have me back, would I love to come back? Most definitely. But that's a long way away.

Jim Edmonds

He did the best he could do with what he believed in, and hopefully he'll come here, get a good ovation, have a good weekend, and it will be good for Cardinals baseball all the way around.

We've found ourselves significantly behind the Cardinals by the month of May or the middle of May. Credit them for how well they get out the gate. Certainly over the winter we'll look at avenues to try to get out of the gate better and maybe approach things differently.

Darnell Dockett

I got nothing to do with the Cardinals three, four years ago; I only got to do with the Cardinals last year. I think it's just a new attitude around here. The new coaches, new schemes, new uniforms -- we're just going in a positive direction.

Jerry Reinsdorf

I don't care. Last year the Red Sox had an offensive machine and they beat the Cardinals with pitching. Go figure.

Fred Willard

I have also always had a fascination with the St. Louis teams; the Cardinals for their Gashouse Gang and classic uniform logos, and of course the Browns for just being the Browns and for Pete Gray. You can also still stand on the site of the '44 World Series, although the parks department has seen fit to plant over the old diamond.

I had one man tell me that fantasy had taught him to be a grownup fan rather than a child fan. The St. Louis Cardinals don't care about me. Why should I care about them? But I do care about whether or not I win my rotisserie league. Because I spend time almost 12 months out of the year researching, planning, managing, negotiating.

He was ready to come up to Triple-A, and right now we really didn't have anything for him. We put the word out that he was available a few days ago, and a few clubs responded. The Cardinals were the most persistent.

Josh Hancock

It didn't go down well, but when one door closes, another door opens. The Cardinals have been great. I couldn't ask for anything better.

Phil Garner

I thought the Cardinals were going to be hard-pressed to duplicate what they did last year and they did duplicate it. We are a different club and we are probably not offensively as potent as we were last year. ... We are probably a little stronger in the pitching department and probably a little weaker in the offense department. I don't know how that's going to work out.

Braden Looper

I was upset then. I was pretty naive. The Cardinals drafted me, and I envisioned playing my whole career there. I didn't know how long I would be in Florida.

I think there are some things that if you're from St. Louis you have an inferiority complex about. We don't have the great residential condominiums of downtown Chicago or we don't have the number of Fortune 500 companies as we used to have. But there are those things we think we do really, really well, like the Cardinals and KMOX and I think we take great pride in those things.

Jerry was the best athlete I ever played with. Jerry was a senior at SMU when I was a sophomore, but we also played together with the Cardinals and Packers. He started in the NFL as a halfback, but moved to defense. He was a great runner.

Joe Buck

I see it as a flip side to how the Atlanta Braves and the Cardinals have done it the last couple of years,

Frank Robinson

I remember my first Opening Day very well. We lost 4-2 to the Cardinals on a two-run home run. I remember my first at-bat, a double, missed a home run by a couple of feet. I had an intentional walk and another hit and went 2-for-3, and I thought I was on my way to the Hall of Fame.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Joe Torre

Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.

Juan Pierre

Mentally, we just didn't get it done for whatever reason. Stuff went our way a couple times in the Cardinals series, and this time we didn't put ourselves in a position to have things go our way.

Andy Cohen

I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.

We want to have one last hurrah at Busch Stadium with the best fans in baseball. The weekend will be filled with heartfelt tributes to the most memorable athletes, coaches, broadcasters and plays that have made Cardinals baseball the tradition that it is today.

Aaron Neville

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

That's why the Cardinals are doing this to move consumption from outside to inside.

Bob Uecker

People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it.

This is an opportunity for fans to secure their tickets to great games in prime locations before individual tickets go on sale. By dropping the marquee pricing for the Cubs and Cardinals games, we are offering another incentive to Wisconsin residents to pack the park with Brewers fans on those days.

This is a tremendous value that collectors and Cardinals fans will cherish for generations to come.

This is the first place I wanted to go. I was originally drafted by the Cardinals out of high school in 1995. I'm from Oklahoma and I grew up a Cardinals fan.

This game will provide a phenomenal opportunity to showcase the Cardinals to a national and international audience.

Tim Dorsey

Somebody pinch me. Cardinals baseball is an institution. It is St. Louis.

Dusty Baker

One good memory I have here is in 2002, we beat the Cardinals to go to the World Series. They've had some great teams here. They usually have a lot of speed. I'm curious to see what happens. Sometimes you change stadiums, change atmosphere, and it changes things.