Schoendienst Quotes

#1. Marketing guru Jay Levinson figures you have to run an ad twenty-seven times against one individual before it has its desired impact. Why? Because only one out of nine ads is seen, and you've got to see it at least three times before it sinks in.

Seth Godin

#2. As a kid, I'd watch MTV and think how great it would be to have my own music videos on those shows. Now I turn on MTV and, along the bottom of the screen, it often reads, 'Coming next ... Pixie Lott.' That's so strange that I can't even begin to make sense of it.

Pixie Lott

#3. MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. You always believed that as good as you knew you were, there was always somebody who could take your place. I tried to work as hard as I could to make sure that didn't happen.

Red Schoendienst

#5. Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit.

Anthony Zinni

#6. 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.

Red Schoendienst

#7. Make me a drink strong enough to wash away this dishwater world, they said was lemonade.

The Shins

#8. I'm just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I'd have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let's forget about it. I'm a ballplayer.

Red Schoendienst

#9. When I was playing, there were only eight teams in each league, and you didn't have any playoffs.

Red Schoendienst

#10. I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

Red Schoendienst

#11. I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

Red Schoendienst

#12. Only mothers can't say they don't want their children and just go away.

Agatha Christie

#13. I don't like to compare clubs or players from way back. It's different today. Your ballparks are better. In the days when I played, we had eight teams in each league. Now you have more.

Red Schoendienst

#14. Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Francis Bacon

#15. I've put in 63 years now in the big leagues as a player, coach, manager. And now just being around these young guys, it keeps you going pretty good.

Red Schoendienst

#16. I'm not much of a jewelry man. I don't even wear a watch half the time.

Red Schoendienst

#17. There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.

Red Schoendienst

#18. I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!

Kate Winslet