It would be nice to save him for last and then the fans could go crazy for two or three minutes.

The biggest thing with Andy was getting his velocity back. Everybody in here knew that once he did, you’re going to see what you saw before. When he’s throwing that cutter at 83-84-85 miles an...

He’s an aggressive manager. Obviously, he’s not afraid to make adjustments or put certain plays on.

It’s a great feeling. You wait a long time and dream about this, and you never know whether or not it’s going to happen. You kind of believe in destiny.

I think it was more their destiny than ours.

It’s a great feeling, a tremendous feeling. But we haven’t accomplished anything yet.

You know, it was going to happen sooner or later. We understand that. Whether it’s another year, another two years, whatever, we know it’s going to happen. We know nobody can play forever. But for...

He throws hard, he’s got a good slider. We haven’t seen him before, which is not good for us, historically.

He’s a little deceiving. He doesn’t have a real good arm slot as far as trying to pick the ball up out of his hand. He made some pretty good pitches when he had to.

I can’t tell you how happy I am. It’s been a long time.

I looked at that list, and it blew me away. To be in with those names makes me feel enormously honored.

We finally have another opportunity with the Cardinals. We have a shot. You only get a few chances like this in your career.

Home runs just come from accidents by me, … I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I’m not trying to hit them.

Here you go, son, here’s a jersey from the guy who just homered off your dad.

We tried some of that the other day. That’s hard,

It’s the only way we know how to do it. We can win 10-9 or 2-1. It’s just something that over the last three or four years, we have no idea on how to blow...

We thought it would be a chance for the fans to see him play one more time, but he wasn’t into it. He didn’t want to go out there and do badly. This [Opening Day...

We’ve got to go back to their ballpark. We’ll put this one behind us. We’ve been through too much this year not to. It hurts, but it’s over. Move on.

We’re treasuring it right now.

Fans have been awesome to him and people have no idea how much pain this man’s been through. This is why he came back. He came back to help us. Today he goes out and...

Us? We don’t know how to do that. Are you kidding me? There’s no way. We did score three runs today, so that’s a good thing. It’s a big step in the right direction.

I guess it’s fitting — how many times were we shut out this year? — to get shut out in our final game.

I don’t think he’s been overshadowed,

The research they do is incredible. I was overwhelmed. They have a great thing going on out there. In reality, this came from one brother’s love for another brother. Seeing the center up in his...

This is the most rewarding season I’ve ever had.

The Fred Hutchinson Award, when you look at the names of the people that are on that, it means a lot. Whether athletes want to accept it or not, you are a role model.

Their fans are the best. If you make a nice play on the opposing side, they give you a golf clap, and they’re respectful. But they love their Cardinals. They do everything they can for...

Home runs just come from accidents by me,

Obviously, 600 doubles is a heck of a lot of doubles. I am real proud of it. I remember hitting 500 at home, and who knows if you are ever going to get to 600?

[Indeed, last June, while protecting a one-run lead in the ninth inning of a game against the Chicago Cubs, Bagwell — with the bases loaded and one out — found himself chasing a high fly...

Just seeing it in spring training was something that was pretty special. We wanted the winning one, and hopefully we can turn that around and maybe get one.

You’re confident (when he’s on the mound. He’s one of the top five starters in the game. You don’t expect to lose that game.

My thoughts are to get the team into the wild card and to the post-season again and hopefully the World Series.

Was it worth the wait, or what? … It’s pretty sweet right now.

That’s being nice, too,

I didn’t even know he was hitting behind me,

It was just Rocket being Rocket. He was just adding to his legendary status.

Some days, it’s a real challenge to get the offense going. Our game relies on pitching, defense and timely hitting.

It just clicked and made sense. [My hands] were off by a lot. With that being said, you have to make the adjustments. I feel comfortable again and I’m happy about that.

Was it worth the wait or what? Forty-four years is a long time everybody, but I tell you what — it’s all worth it. It’s bittersweet right now. It feels great. We love you guys...

It’s one brother’s love for another brother. It started small and has grown into what it is today.

It’s been a long time, you know. I’m not greedy, I’m not selfish, just wanted go one time.

He threw me one fastball and I didn’t see it really well,

You know that play is going to be real close, … I don’t know if he would have gotten me or not because I hit it off the end and it was spinning funny. It’s...

He came in as a third baseman,

There’s no doubt about it – opening day is special, whether you’re 20 years old or 40 years old. It’s hard to put into words. But the thing I’ll remember is the class that our...

He threw me one fastball in, and I kind of didn’t see it real well off him,

She didn’t want me to miss two days considering the players that we have out and how banged up we are now. Typical baseball mom, she’s taking it for the team.

It’s a tough loss. We’ve been through a lot of adversity all season long. We’ve been able to bounce back and come back.

We had some bad angles. Overthrowing the cutoff man. You can’t do that. Tonight was just a bad night.