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.
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 love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
I liked St. Louis, when they were in the American League, because that was going home. I had all my family and friends there.
The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.
Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
If you look at it long-term, I think eventually there will be a DH in 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.
I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.
Look, do I like the Mets and the Yankees? Absolutely.
I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.
We are the New York Yankees
I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.
The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.
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.
The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.
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'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.
One day, I hope I can play in MLS.
I'm damn proud to be a Seattle Mariner.
When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
