The Cardinals lost a remarkable person late last night. A man who lived "the Cardinal way on and off the field," George will be remembered as one of the great figures in the long and storied history of baseball in St. Louis. My thoughts and prayers, along with all those in Cardinal Nation and the global baseball community, go out to his family and friends.

Ithaca College Quarterly

"An old man emerges from the cool hollow of the stadium. The crowd inspects him as he strides past, trailing the history of the game behind him. No one says a word to him. Soon he is gone, and the fans turn back toward the stadium, clutching their baseballs and hoping that someone important will come along."

The New York Times

"Kissell never played in the major leagues, but he tutored virtually every player who made it to the Cardinals through their minor league system going back to the 1940s, and he imparted his baseball wisdom to players arriving in St. Louis from other major league teams. What became known as the Cardinals way — their approach to fielding, hitting and strategy — was essentially the Kissell way."

stlcardinals.com

"George Kissell instilled that on everybody that came through the Cardinals organization: there's one way to play, and you play this way," Hall of Fame reliever Bruce Sutter said in a 2007 interview. "You play hard. There's no ifs, ands or buts about it. There's no excuses. You go play."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"He did more for me than baseball, he made me a part of his family," La Russa said Wednesday from California. "George's fingerprints, his footprints are all over the institution that is our game. His stamp is literally there to see every day, every game that we play."

Belleville News Democrat

"George is Cardinal baseball, as far as I'm concerned," Torre said when he was manager of the Cardinals in the early 1990s. "He's what this organization is all about."