Phil Garner Quotes on People (8 Quotes)

When you go into an organization that's been losing and you try to change the culture, it's a difficult job. It requires absolute faith from ownership. You've got to do some things on the field with your personnel that people don't like. But you've got to do it if you're going to turn it around.

If you mentioned the names of Qualls and Wheeler and Springer, it doesn't exactly make people shudder. Most people don't know who they are.

People are still going to pick the Cardinals, and that's OK. I think people are looking at the Cardinals' starting staff as their rotation might be the best, and it might very well be.

And a lot of people didn't realize he was the first to break the 1 million barrier in salary with Nolan (in the previous contract), ... As far as the players were concerned, we thought he was fantastic. He was tough but he was always fair and this was a first-class organization when he was here.

If you mention the names of Qualls and Wheeler and Springer, it doesn't exactly make people shudder, and most people don't know who they are,

I feel that we have not seen his best game, although I can see why people are very high on him. He has a great downhill tilt, he looks like when he gets his game together, he can control both sides of the plate. He's down in the zone. I would hope he would go down there and pitch right from the get-go and put a little heat on us up here.

It was just cool. They make you feel so very comfortable. I've been around a few politicians ... they're glad-handers, but they're looking over your shoulder to the next person. These people are not that way. They're just very congenial.

I've never seen it where the crowd cheers as much when he breaks his bat and the ball rolls 10 feet. The place goes crazy. Most of the time, people go crazy when a guy takes a big swing, and they go 'Ooooh...' This guy, in our park, he nibbles one and everyone starts going nuts.