88 Quotes by Jimmy Breslin

You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is the team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who loses out on a promotion because he didn't maneuver himself to lunch with the boss enough. It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

Don’t trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

Don’t call me a journalist; I hate the word. It’s pretentious!

Anything that isn’t writing is easy.

Baseball isn’t statistics, it’s Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.

When you leave New York you ain’t going anywhere.

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man’s neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

I’m on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.