Cardinals Quotations

Sure, there were people from Missouri and Illinois who grew up Cardinals fans and migrated to New York for work or love. Cardinals fans congregate periodically at Foley's near Herald Square to root for the team of their childhood, up there on the TV screen.

You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

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

I prepared my intervention the night before I spoke. As it happened, there were about 44 cardinals who wished to speak but could not because there was not enough time. I was one of the last to speak.

I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

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.

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.

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,

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We have some of the future, we have some of the present and we have some of the past as far as Cardinals baseball goes here. It's really neat to have a nice group of guys with us.

We couldn't be more pleased with the support we've received from our fans. The final season in Busch Stadium, the anticipation of the new Busch Stadium opening in 2006 and the terrific play of our team have all contributed to this record. It's a record that everyone associated with the Cardinals should be proud of -- most importantly, our loyal fans.

We know that St. Louis is a baseball town and the city loves its Cardinals. It wouldn't be right if the fans - the people who support the Cardinals year after year - were not a part of the voting process.

We got to see the Braves play the (St. Louis) Cardinals the Sunday we got down there. That was a real treat.

We are committed to providing our fans the opportunity to share a piece of Cardinals history and we are very proud to offer with the help of our Hall of Fame Players this truly unique, limited edition collectable.

We know that Cubs and Cardinals fans will still be targeting these games to buy tickets. It's disheartening for the players to see the ballpark invaded by visiting supporters, and we're asking for our fans to take early action in helping to reverse this trend.

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.

I'm a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.

If it ever lay in my power, I will work the Cardinal as much displeasure as he has done to me.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

There have been so many negative things said about the Arizona Cardinals for such a long period of time. Anytime someone says something good about you, it's good for the players.

With the air-conditioning at the new Cardinals Stadium, we are able to do a lot of things that we couldn't do previously.

We're thrilled to have a small role in the growing excitement over the new St. Louis ballpark. Our IP services will streamline daily operations for the Cardinals and will help to ensure top-notch service for Cardinals fans.

We were down against a good Cardinals team and came back to beat them twice. We've got 25 guys doing their jobs.

We were there when 15 new cardinals were being inducted.

We are very excited about our partnership with Build-A-Bear Workshop. The new stadium gives the Cardinals a great opportunity to expand the different amenities we are able to offer our fans.

Bishops and cardinals have to listen more to the people,

Baseball is a significant part of the American landscape, as are stuffed animals, and that is why this partnership with the St. Louis Cardinals is such a fit. The Cardinals are our hometown team and we have been working with them for many years. Having a store in the new stadium was the logical next step in our relationship.

I've been on the caravan for probably 10 years or more. The great thing about Cardinals baseball is everywhere we go people just love this team.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A lot of people are on the edge of their seats waiting for this to happen, especially all the Cardinals fans here,

I travel all over the country and I don't know if you can see another city where literally every fan wears the team colors the way Cardinals fans do. We saw people outside our hotel at 9 in the morning walking around in Cardinals clothes. I think that's what strikes me even more than the ballpark -- the fans here.

It's normally a pretty good crowd. Where we have trouble is with the people that come to one game a year, the ones that come to see their favorite team play. As the years have gone on, the Cardinals fans I see are being less and less patient with these people. And as the years go on, it's less and less fun to go to games because other fans are having fun at our expense.

That is probably a story that needs to be told nationwide. Everyone's raving about the Cardinals Ballpark Village, but look at what's happening in the heart of downtown. I think it will be the living room of St. Louis.

It was a hard fought battle throughout, the Lady Cardinals are a good team. We have a lot of respect for them.

It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, ... A linebacker for the Cardinals was hollering, 'Choke, Fritsch, choke!' and Dave Edwards, our upback on the protection team, said, 'He can't understand English.'

I view the players as entertainers. Their job is to entertain you, and although an Arizona Cardinals game might not have that effect, most of them do.

The fans know and the Cardinals know that I want to be a Cardinal for my whole career. I love this city. The way that this city has embraced me and my family.

I never once said I was going to change the stigma, ... What I said was I'd make the Arizona Cardinals more like me, and I'd be less like the Arizona Cardinals.

If our guys aren't enjoying this, they are not human. Although it will be even more exciting when they have on that actual Cardinals uniform on to play baseball for St. Louis. Ultimately, this is the goal, to get here.

I never thought that I would pitch for the Cardinals again. The adjustment will be easier than the one when I signed with the Mets. St. Louis is a baseball town with the greatest fans in the world.

He's a partner in the Cardinals and he's been with Bill DeWitt in other deals. Everybody raves about him. He's very personable and a Cincinnati man. I think it's great. Frankly this was an easy one. This was quick.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don`t commit to a decision before you have to.

I count that as a quality start. Sometimes you can abuse the stats. Our team won the game, when's the last time the Cardinals lost when he started? That's a better stat.

I don't think he ever had a real good feel for his mechanics and release point. Whether it was related to the ball hitting him in the knee or not, I don't know. He always battles you, whether he has his best stuff or not. He has an ability to focus even when he's in pain. It was just a day when the Cardinals were better than us.

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.

These games were intense. To sweep a good team like the Cardinals is big. These games count early in the season. Our goal is to win series, but to sweep a good team is a bonus. We can't let up.

The impact of having the Cardinals is huge, but building that new stadium doesn't change anything.

The Cardinals were kicking some funny balls at us ... low line drives, bouncers, anything they could do to keep the ball away. But I've just got to catch the ball, and once I do I'm full speed.

The Cardinals thing, I don't really know if I could sign with them, to be honest with you. If the Cardinals and White Sox came in and said, 'Here, five years for the same amount of money' or slightly apart, I don't know if I could sign with the Cardinals. There's a lot of stuff that comes with that, a lot of distractions. I've talked to people that play in their hometown, and they say it's almost too big of a distraction.

The Cardinals have put two years together that have been unbelievable,

The Cardinals have played 39 years of baseball beneath the arches of Busch Stadium and St. Louis has openly embraced the Cardinals spirit every season. We are proud to celebrate that no matter the club's win-loss record or league standing, fans have been treated to a host of memorable plays and moments combined to form the rich history that is Cardinals baseball.

The Cardinals have a fine team, a real good team. We'll come out next year and try to get the lead or at least stay close -- and stay healthy. They're No. 1 or 2 in pitching, and that shows you how important pitching is. We get our starting pitching healthy and we'll be all right.

The Cardinals gave us a chance to attract new talent and unique talent from around the country. It opened up doors. We have one opportunity to seize this, to do it right, to do it well.

The Cardinals built their ballpark around their team -- they had speed,

The Cardinals (brought me to the area). It's really close to home for my wife and I, which is California. It was close to family and a lot of people were able to come see my games. I was able to go to California whenever I really wanted, which was a different story than Boston.

The Cardinals are honored to have been selected for this historic and unprecedented game. When we learned of the league's interest in staging an international regular-season game, we felt the Cardinals would be a natural fit this season for a number of reasons. Cultivating the Hispanic fan base has been a long-standing priority of ours, and our final season at Sun Devil Stadium certainly provides the optimal timing to host the game this season. We couldn't be more excited about the direction in which our organization is headed. This game will provide a phenomenal opportunity to showcase the Cardinals to a national and international audience.

The Cardinals are a tremendous model, ... They're interesting for this reason -- they can kill you with the long ball. But what takes place with that club in between that long one being hit is what's most damaging about them.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

The mere fact that he is given such a prominent position, and the fact that no U.S. cardinals or other church officials have spoken up against him having this prominent role, is quite disturbing.

The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.

It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.

Contempt for failure is our cardinal virtue.

What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.