George Brett Quotes

If you look at it long-term, I think eventually there will be a DH in the National League.

I became exclusively an American League fan when they instituted the DH rule, and will remain so until the National League moves out of the dark ages.

I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He's like well we got better pitchers. I'm like cause you all got those easy outs at the end.

I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

Look, do I like the Mets and the Yankees? Absolutely.

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.

The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.

I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.

I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.

Everyone in the world disagrees with me, including some managers, but I think managing in the American League is much more difficult for that very reason (having the designated hitter). In the National League, my situation is dictated for me. If I'm behind in the game, I've got to pinch hit. I've got to take my pitcher out. In the American League, you have to zero in. You have to know exactly when to take them out of there. In the National League, that's done for you.

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.

My favorite event each year is the Yankees-Red Sox series. Love seeing passions run hot among the fans, especially when both teams are in the running for the playoffs.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.