Edmonds (On his coach Tony LaRussa): I don't know if too many guys really understand it. The two guys ahead of him obviously managed for a long time, so it's a nice milestone. Hopefully he can manage five or six more years and get to be second. I don't think anybody's going to catch Connie Mack.
Edmonds: I'm just going to do what I used to do, whatever was natural. I know what I'm capable of, and that's what I'm looking for.
Edmonds: It eases the attitude of the team when you know the whole staff can grind out nine innings and they're going to give us a chance to win. It improves the attitude of our team and it improves the effort of our team.
Edmonds: It's difficult for anybody to deal with all that stuff, all that negativity. There's no telling how different guys are gonna react.
Edmonds: I never thought I'd be here, so it's kind of special in my own little way. When you come up playing in this game, you don't really know what you're in for, so you're fortunate to have a career like I've had. I never thought I'd be where I'm at. It's a nice milestone for me. I really never thought I'd get this far. It's nice.
Edmonds: I was trying to figure out where the balls and strikes and the outs are posted today. Those are things you get comfortable with as a player. When you have to start looking for them all over again, it takes some adjusting.
Edmonds: I hit some balls in batting practice that I thought would be homers and they weren't. Then I hit a couple balls I didn't think were and they ended up in the seats.
Edmonds: There's a new stadium, but it's the fans who make this place special. It's hard to describe. Day in, day out they come here and people are cheering. You get used to playing on the field but you never get tired of hearing them in the stands.
Edmonds (On Albert Pujols): He's been rock-solid. He's been steady, solid and strong and he's been swinging the bat good. He's been picking me up a lot lately.
Edmonds (On stealing home plate): I just saw him kick it one time and I thought, well, they're going to be more concentrating on trying to get the guy at the plate. I just kept running.
He won the Silver Slugger award in 2004.
He stole home in a win against the Washington Nationals in 2005, one of five stolen bases all season.
After his junior season he was selected to play for the United States High School Baseball All-Star squad against the Japanese High School All-Stars in Tacoma, Wash.
He batted .548 as a senior.
Jim graduated in 1988 from Diamond Bar High School.
A defining moment of Edmonds' career came in the 2004 National League Championship Series, in which Edmonds hit an extra-inning home run to win Game 6 and made what is commonly referred to as "The Catch" to preserve a Game 7 win.
His career on base percentage is .384 and slugging percentage is .543.
Edmonds was traded from Anaheim to St. Louis for second baseman Adam Kennedy and pitcher Kent Bottenfield shortly before the beginning of the 2000 season.
As of 2006, Jim has played in the MLB for 13 years.
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