Baseball Teams Quotes

My dad was big about talking about baseball and Latin players.

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

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

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

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.

I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put on the uniform year after year. That, to me, is exciting.

Here at NBC there is just one more reason to hate the Yankees.

I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates.

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

I don't have hate in my heart. I don't hate any person, place or thing...but I hate the Yankees.

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

Me, personally, I was a Mets and Giants fan.

When should a man stop wearing sports jerseys? When the buttons of his White Sox top finally pop, like rivets on a distressed ocean liner? When the pinstripes of his Yankees shirt have grown wider at the midsection than at the top, as the longitudinal lines on a globe?

I can remember going to see the minor league Orioles. Until I was 15 years old, we'd go down with 3,000 people to watch them play the Syracuse Chiefs or the Jersey City Little Giants. That's what passed for Baltimore sports.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

If baseball was all year round, I'd play all year round.

I have family and friends who are strong Cardinal fans, and they are having a tough time since I signed. They want to root for me, but rooting for the Cubs is next to a sin.

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.