He jumps down and he gets in their face. That’s like the No. 1 rule ever, you never teach your kids to jump down and get in your dog’s face. He does it.

That’s just what they do. I get booed when you do bad in my job. It’s part of it. You’re the hero or the goat every day — it’s been like that for I don’t...

Morgan hit a good pitch, I thought. He hit it a long way to the opposite field. [On Ausmus’ homer], that [pitch] I wanted more away from him, but it wasn’t.

I make one good pitch then come back and make a terrible pitch and they hit the ball out of the ballpark. One of these days maybe they’ll pop one up. But right now, they’re...

Yeah, I like to get booed.

It’s just things like that, and they’re really not taking any bad swings at anything I throw up there. I’m sure people are saying I don’t have anything left in the tank. Whatever. I know...

It’s great to be part if this. To get a milestone for him like that, that’s amazing.

When he pitches, you don’t expect the phone to ring.

It’s three games. We may self-implode. We don’t know what’s going to happen. As of right now, we’re going out there and throwing strikes. When you get hurt is when you walk people. If you...

I know good and well what’s going through his mind. But it’s the playoffs. As a pitcher you just have to deal with it, take a shower and forget about it.

That’s just mind over matter, … You have to go out there and realize what you’re getting ready for. We’ve had this talk, me and Tony. Every time I go out there, I have to...

It’s ridiculous. It’s not like last year when I had to compensate for my hip and my shoulder. Now I feel great, and now everything isn’t the same. The ball is moving the way I...

It’s just about making pitches and I can’t right now. I’m not making pitches. It’s just something I have to get through, and keep working on, and keep doing in between games. It’s just something...

I want to get in there as much as I can right now. I need to get people out; I need to throw pitches to people. I need to see how they’re swinging at my...

He has a degree in psychology, so he’s very cerebral about pitching and mechanics and things like that. He would make me think more than I usually did, which is sometimes bad for me.

I give up one or two home runs a year and now I’ve given up two in the first week. They’re not really taking any bad swings at what I throw up there. I’m sure...

And we’d better get it done quick, because it’s only going to get more expensive.

My biggest thing, he worked his butt off for eight innings, and I go out and give up the lead, not once, but twice. It doesn’t happen often. I’ll turn the page and go out...

When they started going over the itinerary, I told them I didn’t want to do that. It wasn’t about not getting ready. When I first committed, we didn’t have all the information about how long...

I need to get people out. I need to be out there. I need to have them swinging at my pitches. Right now, everything they swing at, they’re hitting pretty good. We’ll get it worked...

It was fun to get out there again. When things are going bad, it seems like it snowballs, but things will be fine.

He worked his butt off for eight innings, and I go out there and give up the lead not once but twice.

It’s a totally different club when you have a Chris Carpenter and a Mark Mulder in the starting rotation.

Just one bad pitch I wish I could get back, but I can’t. It’s just frustrating more than anything, but we’ll be back out there.

If it’s a one-run game, you pitch totally different.

I had bad mechanics (against) the first two guys. I thought I could get in on him with my best pitch, get a ground ball and try to get a double play. I didn’t get...

Of course we’re better off. We got Carpenter healthy, and we got Mark Mulder. I’m not taking anything away from the other guys, but those two guys at the front of the rotation? They’re pretty...

I made that one bad pitch today and he hit it out. If he pops it up, it’s a different story…. If I make a better pitch, he doesn’t hit it out of the infield.

There were skeptics who wondered how strong our offense would be [in the playoffs] given all the injuries we’ve gone through. I think our hitters answered those questions.

It is weird how we’re back in the same position we were last year, but that’s what makes it so much fun.

It’s not really normal. But it’s the playoffs.

As long as they keep calling down there, I’ll keep going out there, and I’ll give up another home run, I’m sure. That’s just part of it.

I think I have my mechanics back in order. Things are going in the right direction. It doesn’t look like it totally, but to me, they are.

[No club with the best regular-season record has won a World Series since the 1998 Yankees, but these Cardinals are a more balanced team than ”¡last year’s club ”¡that amassed a major league-high 105 regular-season...

That’s why it’s fun [to play the Astros]. They’re a great team and they play the game the right way, just like us.

Carp is doing something special,

You try to make the perfect pitch — it doesn’t always happen. You press a little bit, get booed and all of that good stuff. But that’s just part of my job. You just have...

Not worried about today at all.

I stink right now. You get booed when you do bad in my job. You’re either the hero or the goat every day. … I’ve been the goat pretty good for awhile here.

Any time we go into the ninth with the bottom of the lineup coming up, … all we’re trying to do is get a hit, get a walk, get a couple of guys on —...

I know I’ve got good enough stuff to get people out. It’s about making good pitches, and I haven’t been able to do that yet. I’ll make one good pitch, then I’ll come back and...

I probably don’t throw as hard as I once did. But then again I don’t have to. I used to check the gun every pitch to see where I was. That was pretty much it:...

I came in here and watched it. It was right down the middle.

It’s beautiful. It’s great. They’ve got the sea of red, which is going to be there all year for us, and we were able to get a win out of it. That’s our main goal,...

I wasn’t trying to strike everybody out,

It’s ridiculous, … It’s not like last year when I had to compensate for my hip and my shoulder. Now I feel great, and now everything isn’t the same. The ball is moving the way...