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Quotes About Mets

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?
~ Sparky Anderson
I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
~ Mario Cuomo
The Mets represent life and the reality of life, the winning, the losing, the hope, the faith. You stick with them through the ups and the downs, the heartbreaks. Every year you always have hope. You always have faith, even when they break your heart. You get mad, but you stick with them. They're humbling.
~ Jim Breuer
I love being a Met. It was my favorite team growing up, so to be a Met to me is very special.
~ David Wright
I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.
~ Logan Marshall-Green
If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'
~ Eddie Kaye Thomas
Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.
~ Pedro Martinez
I knew that the Mets had never had a no-hitter. I never had one. This is very special. I knew this means a lot to New York.
~ Johan Santana
That's obviously not easy. I don't want to leave the Mets; I don't want to not play in New York. It's not at all that I want to leave, but that's the business.
~ Matt Harvey
My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets.
~ Jim Breuer
Four hours and forty-two minutes after Knepper began the game by striking out Wilson, the Mets swarmed the field and swallowed Orosco. Mike Scott was named NLCS MVP. New York was going to the World Series. It was time to destroy an airplane.
~ Jeff Pearlman
LONG ISLAND, WHICH IS considered part of New York and the new home of the Mets, is the perfect place for them. Nothing particularly good has happened on Long Island for over fifty years, so nobody is going to get unduly concerned if the Mets take more than a little while to pull themselves together.
~ Jimmy Breslin
I've been a Mets fan all my life." Nearly everybody was saying it by mid-June. And nearly everybody had a good reason for saying it. You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life.
~ Jimmy Breslin
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~ Jack Goldstein
All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.
~ Ralph Kiner
Nick Murray has been a Mets fan all his life. Before that, he rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
~ Nick Murray
For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not know. Once, when he had been in the luncheonette, they had talked about baseball, and now, each time Quinn came in, they continued to talk about it. In the winter, the talk was of trades, predictions, memories. During the season, it was always the most recent game. They were both Mets fans, and the hopelessness of that passion had created a bond between them.
~ Paul Auster