“I want to be a Met my whole career.”

—  David Wright

[New York Post, http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/61197.htm, At Home With Mr. Wright, Kernan, Kevin, 2006-01-08, 2006-09-22, http://web.archive.org/web/20060110150417/http://www.nypost.com/sports/mets/61197.htm, 2006-01-10]

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