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If someone wants to play and is fiddling with $11 million, that shows he doesn't want to play very much. I'm from the old school - you've got to prove yourself in the big leagues, and that's where you make your money.

On J.D. Drew's demand of a eleven million dollar signing bonus upon being drafted.

Mark David McGwire
St. Louis Cardinals
1B

When I was in the big leagues, I was a big fundamental guy. I moved runners over. I squeezed them in. I played good defense. I've seen a lot of guys who didn't make the major leagues because they didn't know how to play the fundamentals.

On his managerial debut.

José Manuel Oquendo
St. Louis Cardinals
2B

Satch, if you and Josh (Gibson) played with me 'n' (his brother and fellow pitcher) Paul on the Cards, we'd win the pennant by July 4th and go fishin' the rest of the year.

To pitcher Satchel Paige, between innings of an exhibition game between the Crawfords and his world champion Cardinals

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Dorrel Norman Elvert "Whitey" Herzog
St. Louis Cardinals
Manager
HOF 2010

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, sixty feet, six inches apart.

Describing the rapport between himself and former batterymate Steve Carlton

James Timothy "Tim" McCarver
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

James Timothy "Tim" McCarver
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher
Contributed by: A Dodger Fan

I can only control Mark McGwire swinging the bat.

Responding to a reporters question on Sammy Sosa, the night Sosa, then McGwire hit their 66th homeruns, 1998

9-25-98
Mark David McGwire
St. Louis Cardinals
1B

The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.

After being hit in the head by a thrown ball in the 1934 World Series.

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

When he went up for his last at-bat, I looked up at the scoreboard and saw his stats: 69 home runs, 144 RBIs, and I'm thinking, 'Look at that; that's not a season, that's a career.'

On best friend and teammate Mark McGwire, 1B, after the 1998 season

Thomas Michael Lampkin
St. Louis Cardinals
Catcher

If I'da known he was gonna throw one, I'da thrown one, too.

After his brother Paul threw a no-hitter in the second game of a double-header when Dizzy had thrown a two-hitter in the first game

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

Contributed by: Nick Johnson

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