Words matter. These are the best Dodgers Quotes from famous people such as Pete Hamill, Rudy Giuliani, Gordon Sinclair, Thomas Hauser, Ryan Fleck, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
An independent Brooklyn probably would have built a new stadium for the Dodgers, so today there might be not just baseball but also the only football team on this side of the Hudson.
I can’t be the Mayor of L.A. I hate the Dodgers. I’m a Yankee fan. Yankee fans can’t ever root for the Dodgers.
Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them… unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
Three of my childhood dreams went unfulfilled. I never saw a no-hitter, never saw a triple play, and never caught a ball that had been hit into the stands. But I did see the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in a World Series game when I was 10.
Through the mid-80s I watched my team struggle, but in 1988 the A’s made it to the Series. I was at Game 5 that year and was forced to watch the Dodgers celebrate a World Series Championship on our home turf.
The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
I’m here to win a World Series. I’m excited to be here with my team. I’m excited to be here with the Dodgers. We’ve got one goal, which is to win, and we’re not going to stop until we get it.
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they’re looking down on the Dodgers.
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.
Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.
I watch the Dodgers every night – no reading anymore – and I dream that I could have hit that home run.
I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn’t want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you’re no longer a fan. I don’t root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it’s really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.
The Dodgers told me a big bonus was no good, and they said other players would resent it. Better for me to take a small amount of money and work my way.
I like sports. I’m a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a… I don’t even know how to describe it… I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven’t had the same passion for sports.
I own about 70 L.A. Dodgers snapbacks in different colors.
We are fortunate and blessed to have a partner of Harvey Schiller’s stature, who shares our vision for the future of the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles and our great baseball fans throughout the world.
Rooting for the Dodgers once would have been heresy within my New York family.
Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.
I can’t tell you how much it means for the Dodgers’ front office, who were already winning without me, to bring me over to help win a championship. Hopefully, I can help deliver that.
In 1958, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley broke countless hearts when he moved the team known as the Boys of Summer to Los Angeles – dumping the guts and grit of Ebbets Field for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood.
O’Malley wanted to move the Dodgers out of Brooklyn because he saw the promised land. He was right about that, but to this day I think he was wrong to take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn.
I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
I have great confidence in Rick Caruso’s unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
