Comma's and quotation marks

My job requires that I write reports on school students, which sometimes includes quotations from teachers. My question is, where do the comma's go when I have a list of quotes from different individuals (teachers), all about the same student and all within the same sentence? Perhaps I shouldn't even be using a comma? Maybe I shouldn't be using anything, I don't know? That's why I'm writing you and why you get the big bucks...right? ; )

I'll provide two examples for your consideration.

In this first example I'll put the comma's outside the quotation marks.

...and her teachers made the following comments about Mary: "She always come to class prepared", "She is a hardworking student", "Performance is improving", and "Mary is a well behaved student."...

In this second example I'll put the comma's within the quotation marks.

...and her teachers made the following comments about Mary: "She always come to class prepared," "She is a hardworking student," "Performance is improving," and "Mary is a well behaved student."...

So there you have it. Thanks for the help.
John

Nevermind where the commas go, where do the apostophes go?

Here 'commas' is a plural noun and therefore does not need an apostrophe!