Welcome to the first day of spring training. Nothing like it in life, especially when you are there in person. I still have very fond memories of a decade ago when I went to Met spring training and saw Sandy Koufax. He signed an autograph for my son and couldn't have been nicer. Mike Piazza was also a wonderful signer that day....What great memories. Will this be a year to remember? Will the Mets find their Jeremy Lin or Victor Cruz? Will Jason Bay right his Met career? Will Johan come back? So many questions and we have the next six months to watch them on fold. To celebrate spring training, here are some all-time great Met manager quotes.
"Baseball is like church. Many attend, but few understand."
--Wes Westrum, Former Met Manager, on describing baseball
"There are two kinds of managers. Winning managers an ex-managers."
--Gil Hodges, World Series winning Met Manager
"Our first Met game was April 10, 1962. And it was our best game. It was rained out."
--Casey Stengel, on the '62 Mets
"Understanding the use of an adjective or adverb and figuring out how to use verb tenses won't help you play baseball in the States. It's all about learning pitchers and teammates."
--Bobby Valentine
"The mentality of the club was that you didn't take anything for granted. Nothing. They called us names, they hated us around the league, called us arrogant. How can we be arrogant when we hadn't won anything yet?"
--Davey Johnson, on the 1986 Mets
"No, I'm not excited. It's no big deal. How the hell is a man my age going to get excited?"
--Joe Frazier, former Met Manger, on managing Opening Day at age 53
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