National League Quotes

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

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 work for the Chicago Cubs, a team with a following so loyal and adoring and a history so forlorn that we were known nationwide as the Loveable Losers.

I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended my first game at Wrigley Field when I was four.

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

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

It's good for Brazilian football to have idols, stars, big stars coming back to Brazilian clubs. The tournaments become much better, more interesting. Ze Roberto, Juninho Pernambucano, Ronaldinho Gaucho, and other players who have returned to Brazil strengthen the league and improve the tournaments.

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.

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.

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

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.

You know what we should do? We should just put flags on everybody. Let's make it the NFFL - the National Flag Football League. It's unbelievable.

Mr [Harry] Truman announced today that Russia had set off its first atomic explosion. Public reaction was varied…. Today the Brooklyn Dodgers are one-half behind the St Louis in the National League and the Yanks and the Boston Red Sox are neck and neck. And the American public is basically probably more interested in this race than in the race of atomic energy.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

I do have a lot of concerns but I am happy to say the Mets aren't one of them.

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 a lifetime St. Louis Cardinals fan.

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.

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

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.